The Jewish Calendar 2022/2023

Jewish festivals are celebrated on dates which are determined according to a lunar calendar which does not synchronise with the solar calendar. In order to ensure that seasonal festivals, such as celebrations of harvests, fall in the correct season, the calendar is adjusted.

Seven times in every nineteen years, we add an extra month to the year. How do we do this? When we reach the last month of the year, Adar, we just repeat it! The Jewish day begins at sunset, which means that all Jewish festivals begin in the evening before the festival day, rather than beginning immediately after midnight. This reflects the origin of the festivals in times when there were no clocks. At least everyone knew when it was dark or light. So a day ended (and the next one began) when the sun set.

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• Jewish Year 5782

  Shavuot

  Tisha B’Av (fast of the ninth of Av)

  Saturday 5 June 2022

  Sunday 7 August 2022

• Jewish Year 5883

  Erev Rosh Hashanah

  Rosh Hashanah

  Rosh Hashanah second day

  Shabbat Shuvah

  Erev Yom Kippur (kol nidrei)

  Yom Kippur

  Erev Sukkot

  Sukkot

  Erev Shmini Atzetet/Simchat Torah

  Shmini Atzetet/Simchat Torah

  First Chanukah light

  Shabbat Chanukah

  Eighth Chanukah light

  Sunday 25 September 2022

  Monday 26 September 2022

  Tuesday 27 September 2022

  Saturday 1 October 2022

  Tuesday 4 October 2022

  Wednesday 5 October 2022

  Sunday 9 October 2022

  Monday 10 October 2022

  Sunday 16 October 2022

  Monday 17 October 2022

  Sunday 18 December 2022

  Saturday 24 December 2022

  Monday 26 December 2022

• 2023

  Tu BiSh’vat (New Year for Trees)

  Purim

  First seder night

  First Day Pesach (Passover)

  Seventh Day Pesach

  Shavuot

  Tisha B’Av (fast of the ninth of Av)

  Monday 6 February 2023

  Tuesday 7 March 2023

  Wednesday 5 April 2023

  Thursday 6 April 2023

  Wednesday 12 April 2023

  Friday 26 May 2023

  Thursday 27 July 2023