This is the 2022 calendar - The Refiner's Fire

1 this is the 2022 calendar . this calendar recognizes that the Moon is renewed when it is in conjunction before sunset in Israel, thus the sunset following the day of conjunction, NOTE: There is no other The Refiner's Fire calendar . this is from becomes the first day of the new month. Therefore, this calendar lists the time of New Moon from Jerusalem and the time of sunset in Jerusalem as an aid to validate For 2022, the High Holy days by this calendar are essentially the same as the the correct 1st day of each month. Again, refer to the details following the traditional Jewish calendar differing only by a day in the holy days. Torah portions December calendar page. between the two calendars are, once again, essentially the same.

2 ( this calendar and the traditional often differ since the traditional calendar inserts a leap month by Summary of the Holy Days for 2022: fixed schedule instead of by the real moon.) Questions can be directed to The Refiner's Fire, email: Erev Pesach: Apr 15 (Pesach begins late afternoon and into Apr 16th). this calendar has no authority! You are not asked to or expected to follow it. See Feast of Unleavened Bread: Apr 16-22 (*1st & 7th day are High Sabbaths). the detailed explanation for this calendar beginning on the Appendix following the December calendar grid. Genesis 1:14 says Let there be lights in the dome of the First Fruits: Apr 16 (1st day of Omer) Compare to the 2022 Rabbinic dates: Erev Pesach: Apr 15.

3 Sky to divide the day from the night; let them be for signs, seasons, days and years . Shavuot: Jun 5 (*High Sabbath day) FULB: Apr 16-23. In our estimation a calendar should use the real sun, moon and stars as they are First Fruits: Apr 16. witnesses in and of themselves , no two (human) witnesses are needed to Yom Teruah: Sep 27 (*High Sabbath day) Shavuot: Jun 5. attest to a sighted crescent to determine the beginning of the month and no Yom Kippur: Oct 6 (*High Sabbath day) Yom Teruah: Sep 26. barley is needed to determine the year. Yom Kippur: Oct 5. Levites of old actually observed the moon throughout the whole month, every Sukkot: Oct 11-18 (*1st and last day Sukkot: Oct 10-17. month, year after year, including far more than just the visible new crescent each month: Lost on most today, the ancients were, for example: aware of the time of are High Sabbaths).

4 Sunset in Jerusalem; the observed moon rise & set times all month long; the (*High Sabbath: These are the set-apart days of the commanded feasts. They are called high observed the old crescent size and position with respect to the sun before sunrise; Sabbaths because they are days of holy convocations, no work, time with YHWH, and rest. and were able to determine the day of the unseen conjunction (which many today The weekly Sabbath is set apart on its own, distinct from the high Sabbaths. See Leviticus 23.). say is impossible). All these heavenly witnesses come together to provide knowledge of the 1st day of the new Hebrew month in advance. Indeed, when the The Hebrew calendar : new month arrived, the sighting of the crescent only sanctified that the month had Month Name Falls in: Month Name Falls in: already begun.

5 (See Maimonides). The crescent sighting was cause for a party, not 1 Nisan Mar-Apr 7 Tishri Sep-Oct the determinant of the month! 2 Iyar Apr-May 8 Cheshvan Oct-Nov The modern traditional rabbinic calendar calculates the 1st day of a new month by 3 Sivan May-Jun 9 Kislev Nov-Dec an average moon and by man-made rules establishing future High Holy Days 4 Tammuz Jun-Jul 10 Tevet Dec-Jan (commanded Feast Days) such that the rabbis don't permit Yom Kippur to fall on 5 Av Jul-Aug 11 Shevat Jan-Feb Friday or Sunday. this calendar permits all Holy Days to fall when they fall! this 6 Elul Aug-Sep 12 Adar (I) Feb-Mar calendar also recognizes the importance of the Full Moon as a witness (Genesis 1:14) of the middle of the Hebrew calendar month.

6 In general, in Jerusalem when 13 Adar (II) Mar-Apr the Hebrew date at sunset becomes the 14th or 15th (depending on if the month is to ( The new moon of Nisan each year is chosen so Pesach falls on or after the start of be 29 or 30 days), a full or nearly full moon should be observed to rise about the Spring. If Pesach would fall before Spring, then a leap month is added. In leap time of sunset. The moon is clearly announcing the middle of the month! If instead years, 2nd Adar is always known as Adar though on calendars the two months are you relied on the sighted moon , then the calendar month will have always begun usually labeled Adar I & Adar II , or Adar & Adar Sheni . Purim and Adar a day or two late, and when the middle of the calendar month arrives, the moon birthdays are always in the 2nd Adar (the official Adar) if there is one that year.)

7 Will be observed to rise an hour or more after sunset, already visibly well-past full, indicating the manmade calendar is clearly not right because the moon itself is Note: Parsha , the weekly Torah portion, is used in the calendar grids. It is the declaring the month is well past half over! same as Parashat ha-Shavua used on some calendars. A note on the colors used in the calendar grids: Dates colored Blue denote the 1st of the Hebrew month (which actually began at sunset the prior evening). Dates colored Yellow denote the period of the Full Moon. Dates colored Green denote the period when the moon is renewed. High Holy Days are indicated with a RED border. The intermediate days of the Feast of Unleavened bread and Sukkot observances are indicated with a Blue border.

8 The weekly Shabbat is always a NO WORK day, but is not specifically highlighted. As always: The Hebrew day begins at local sunset the evening before the calendar date shown in the grids. Be sure to read the 9-page explanation of this calendar at the end of this document. Updated Jan 19, 2021. (Fixed Parsha reading error and formatting). January 2022 (5782). Yom Rishon Yom Sheni Yom Sh'lishi Yom Revi'i Yom Chamishi Yom Shishi Shabbat Sun-day Mon-day Tues-day Wednes-day Thurs-day Fri-day Dec 26 Dec 27 Dec 28 Dec 29 Dec 30 Dec 31 Jan 1. 22 Tevet 23 Tevet 24 Tevet 25 Tevet 26 Tevet 27 Tevet 28 Tevet Parsha 14) Vayera: Torah: Exodus 6:2-9:35. Haftorah: Ezekiel 28:25-29:21. Brit Chadasha: Romans 9:14-17; 2.

9 Corinthians 6:14-7:1. Jan 2 Jan 3 Jan 4 Jan 5 Jan 6 Jan 7 Jan 8. 29 Tevet 30 Tevat 1 Shevat 2 Shevat 3 Shevat 4 Shevat 5 Shevat NM 8:32 PM Parsha 15) Bo: Torah: Exodus 10:1-13:16. Haftorah: Jeremiah 46:13-28. Brit Chadasha: Luke 2:22-24; John 19:31-37; Acts 13:16-17; Revelation 8:6-9:12. Jan 9 Jan 10 Jan 11 Jan 12 Jan 13 Jan 14 Jan 15. 6 Shevat 7 Shevat 8 Shevat 9 Shevat 10 Shevat 11 Shevat 12 Shevat Parsha 16) B'shallach: Torah: Exodus 13:17-17:16. Haftorah: Judges 4:4-5:31. Brit Chadasha: John 6:25-35, 19:31-37;. 1 Corinthians 10:1-13; 2 Corinthians 8:1-15; Revelation 15:1-4. Jan 16 Jan 17 Jan 18 Jan 19 Jan 20 Jan 21 Jan 22. 13 Shevat 14 Shevat 15 Shevat 16 Shevat 17 Shevat 18 Shevat 19 Shevat Full Moon Parsha 17) Yitro: Torah: Exodus 18:1-20:23.

10 Haftorah: Isaiah 6:1-7:14. Brit Chadasha: 1 Timothy 3:1-14. Jan 23 Jan 24 Jan 25 Jan 26 Jan 27 Jan 28 Jan 29. 20 Shevat 21 Shevat 22 Shevat 23 Shevat 24 Shevat 25 Shevat 26 Shevat Parsha 18) Mishpatim: Torah: Exodus 21:1-24:18. Haftorah: Jeremiah 34:8-22, 31:31-34. Brit Chadasha: Hebrews 9:15-22. Jan 30 Jan 31 Note: this year we have removed the time of the astronomical Full Moon as it causes too much confusion. The exact 27 Shevat 28 Shevat time of the Full Moon is not at all important. The important thing is that the middle of the calendar month is within the same period as the middle of the moon's month; the Full Moon. Ancient people did not know the exact time of the Full Moon, nor did they need to, instead they simply watched the signs of the age of the moon when it rose monthly on the 14th of the Hebrew month.