Creation Calendar

The Creation Calendar shows Hebrew
Months which begin at each new moon.
Enter the Gregorian Calendar date to see
the corresponding Hebrew Month, OR
a Hebrew Month and Gregorian year.

Isaiah 53 from the Aleppo Codex

Who has believed Our report? And to whom has the arm of יהוה been revealed? For He comes up as a tender plant before Him, and as a Root out of a dry ground. He has no form, nor honor, when we observe Him, nor beauty, that we should desire Him. He was despised, and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. And as one hiding His countenance from us, He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. Surely He has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows, yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by Elohim, and afflicted. And He was pierced for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities, the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned each to his own way, and יהוה has laid on Him את the punishment of us all. He was oppressed and He was afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led as a Lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, He did not open His mouth. By oppression and trial was taken away, and who can speak of את His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living, for the transgressions of My people He was stricken. And He made His grave with את the wicked, and with את the rich in His death, because He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth. Yet it pleased יהוה to bruise Him and to cause Him to suffer, and though יהוה makes His life an offering for sin, He will see His offspring and prolong His days, and the will of יהוה will prosper in His hand. He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, for He shall bear their iniquities. Therefore I will give Him a portion with the great, and shall divide את the spoil with the strong, because He poured out His soul even to death, and was numbered with את the transgressors, and He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Welcome to Torahcalendar.com

The Calendar Restoration Project is a historical work in progress to restore the Creation Calendar of Scripture. Based on the whole counsel of Scripture, it is evident that the Creation Calendar is a 7000 year calendar modeled on the seven days of creation. It is composed of 140 Jubilee Cycles of 50 years.

From Psalm 90:4 and 2 Peter 3:8, the Scriptures teach that the Millennial Sabbath and the Age of Life with יהושע the Messiah will begin after 6000 Years since the true epoch of creation.

We believe the Sabbaths, New Moons, Appointed Times and Festivals of יהוה have been correctly restored. We also believe that this site correctly teaches how to determine the Hebrew Hour, Hebrew Day, Hebrew Month and Hebrew Year.

We are watching, hoping, and praying that the Messiah will come soon. The final goal of the Calendar Restoration Project is to successfully determine the true epoch of creation.

יהושע the Messiah is not delaying His coming. יהושע will come on time. We must all keep watching as the Master has said, to see something many have longed to see - the resurrection of the just.

By entering this website you acknowledge that the date posted for the epoch of creation is provisional, and is conditional upon historical proof which is not yet published.

Using the Creation Calendar

The duration of the Creation Calendar is 7000 years. This website can currently display Hebrew Months for any year within the range 3977 B.C.E. to 3024 C.E. Use the navigation box located at the top of this page to view Hebrew Months on the Creation Calendar. There are two ways to access months. Enter a Gregorian/Julian calendar date (Day, Month, Year) to go to the Hebrew Month in which that date is found, or directly select a Hebrew Month and a Gregorian/Julian year. The abbreviation C.E. means Common Era and B.C.E. means Before Common Era. Click on B.C.E to access years before 1 C.E.

Spiritual Years begin in the spring around March or April on the Gregorian/Julian calendar, and Hebrew Months are numbered from the beginning of the Spiritual Year. The navigation box utililizes Gregorian/Julian years and Hebrew Months. The convention chosen to identify Spiritual Years on this website is to use the corresponding Gregorian/Julian year in which the Spiritual Year begins.

The Calendar Page

After pressing the View Calendar button, a calendar page appears displaying the selected Hebrew Month. The sample calendar page below shows Hebrew Month 1 which occurred in 1989 C.E. on the Gregorian Calendar. This example will be used to demonstrate helpful features of the Creation Calendar.

Special Days

The Creation Calendar identifies special days such as festival days, fast days, the modern state of Israel's civil holidays and other important days using specially colored backgrounds. Below is a color key which identifies the background colors used for designating these special days.

Equinoxes and Solstices

An equinox is defined as the time when the apparent geocentric longitude of the sun (that is, calculated by including the effects of aberration and nutation) is either 0 degrees (the spring equinox) or 180 degrees (the fall equinox). On the day of an equinox, daytime and nighttime are approximately the same anywhere on the earth. In the northern hemisphere, the spring equinox denotes the transition from winter to spring, whereas the fall equinox marks the transition from summer to fall. The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year, and the summer solstice is the longest for observers in the northern hemisphere. The spring equinox is used to determine when the Spiritual Year begins which is the process of intercalation.

Intercalation is the method of determining when to insert an extra month (a leap Month 13) in order to keep the Spiritual Year synchronized with the seasons. In an intercalated Hebrew Year, Month 12 has also been called Adar א Aleph (Adar I) and the following intercalary Month 13 has been called Adar ב Bet (Adar II). The seasons are ruled by the sun, and the spring equinox is the demarcation point for the solar cycle in the Creation Calendar. The Creation Calendar always places Day 15 of Month 1 on or after the Hebrew Day of the spring equinox. The following colors and shapes are used on the Creation Calendar for displaying the equinoxes and solstices.

Calendar Day Detail

Each day rectangle displayed in the Creation Calendar displays the Hebrew Day of the Hebrew Month, and the corresponding dates on the Gregorian/Julian calendar. Some days provide additional information. The following diagram explains possible types of information that can be shown on calendar days.

The 24 Priestly Courses

When the sacrificial system was in operation, the Levitical priests were divided into shifts which operated on a rotation basis. These shift rotations are referred to as the priestly divisions or the sacerdotal courses. It is certain that the 24 Priestly Courses operated on a continuous 168 day cycle with 24 shifts of 7 days.

The Calibration of the 24 Priestly Courses on the Creation Calendar

According to 1 Chronicles 24:3-19, the 24 Priestly Courses were actually devised by King David and the High Priests Zadok II and Ahimelech II in 962 B.C.E. as can be gleaned from 2 Chronicles 8:12-14.

The 24 Priestly Courses began with Course 1 - Jehoiarib on Yom Teruah on New Moon 7 in 951 B.C.E. which was also on the first day of Year 2 of Shemittah Cycle 425. Course 1 - Jehoiarib was on duty when the First Temple burned on the Fast of Month 5 on Day 9 / Month 5 in 593 B.C.E. The Talmud in Arachin 11B indicates and the Creation Calendar confirms that Course 1 - Jehoiarib was in fact on duty that week.

According to Ezra 7:1-10, Ezra left Babylon on New Moon 1 in 458 B.C.E. and arrived in Jerusalem on New Moon 5 in 458 B.C.E. in Year 7 of Artaxerxes I (465-424). It is evident from Ezra 2:36-39 that of the 24 Priestly Courses which existed at the end of the First Temple Period, only 4 Priestly Courses returned in 458 B.C.E. These were: Course 9 - Jeshua; Course 16 - Immer; Course 5 - Malchijah or at least the descendents of Pashur son of Malchijah [Nehemiah 11:12]; and Course 3 - Harim. According to Ezra 6:17-18, these four priestly family lines reconstituted themselves into the 24 Priestly Divisions in order to equitably divide the tasks of performing the temple service.

Josephus said in Antiquities 11 / 107-108 that sacrifices were offered at the temple dedication on Day 23 / Month 12 in 456 B.C.E. The Creation Calendar shows that Course 1 - Jehoiarib would have come on duty 1 day earlier on Day 22 / Month 12 in 456 B.C.E., at the end of Year 8 of Artaxerxes I (465-424), exactly 8 days before his Year 9 began. According to Ezra 6:19-22, the Passover was kept in Jerusalem on Day 14 / Month 1 of 456 B.C.E. and the Feast of Unleavened Bread was kept for 7 days with joy from Day 15 / Month 1 of 456 B.C.E. to Day 21 / Month 1. Josephus correctly indicates in Antiquities 11 / 109-110 that Passover was observed in Year 9 of Artaxerxes I (465-424) in the year the Second Temple was dedicated.

According to Nehemiah 1:1-7, it was only 10 years later in Year 19 of Artaxerxes I (465-424), which was in 446 B.C.E. in Nehemiah's twentieth year of service to the king, that the children of Israel were in great distress for not keeping the commandments, statutes, and ordinances of Elohim.

As the walls of Jerusalem were broken down and the gates were burned, the temple service obviously ceased and the 24 Priestly Courses were not able to perform their duty for some period of time. According to Nehemiah 2:1-8, it was in Year 20 of Artaxerxes I (465-424) in 445 B.C.E. that this very king decreed that the Judeans could rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, the gates, the palace and the temple.

According to Nehemiah 6:15, Nehemiah rebuilt the walls in 52 days finishing on Day 25 / Month 6 in 445 B.C.E. The Levites were appointed at this time according to Nehemiah 7:1-2, and Nehemiah 12:44-47. The Creation Calendar shows that Course 1 - Jehoiarib would have begun their shift on the Sabbath on Day 29 / Month 6 in 445 B.C.E. in Year 20 of Artaxerxes I (465-424). Course 1 - Jehoiarib would have been on duty at the dedication of the wall on New Moon 7 in 445 B.C.E. For according to Nehemiah 12:32-36 and Nehemiah 12:40-42, the wall was dedicated on Yom Teruah on the Day of Trumpets on New Moon 7, exactly 6 days after the walls were finished.

According to Luke 1:5-23, Zachariah encountered the angel Gabriel during Course 8 - Abijah which was on duty from Day 21 / Month 3 to Day 28 / Month 3 in 4 B.C.E. John was conceived on New Moon 4 and he was born on New Moon 1 in 3 B.C.E. 6 months before יהושע the Messiah was born on New Moon 7 in 3 B.C.E.

John the Immerser was 30 years old when he was commissioned as a Levitical priest in the Second Temple on Day 25 / Month 1 in 28 C.E. according to Luke 1:80 on the first day of Course 8 - Abijah. Just before he was stoned to death, Stephen testified of the day John was finishing his course on Day 3 / Month 2 in 28 C.E. According to Acts 13:25, John prophesied of יהושע on that day.

The evidence in the Messianic Scriptures and the Babylonian Talmud suggests that the 24 Priestly Courses ran in a constant 24 week cycle of 168 days (24 X 7) from the time Solomon instituted them on New Moon 7 in 951 B.C.E. until the daily sacrifice was suspended on the Fast of Month 4 in 70 C.E. Course 4 - Seorim was finishing and Course 5 - Malchijah was scheduled to begin the day the daily sacrifice failed.

The 24 Priestly Courses ran for 2217 complete cycles ending in the 2218th cycle. The Creation Calendar appears to prove that the 24 Priestly Courses, established by King David and the High Priests Zadok II and Ahimelech II, and initiated by King Solomon and the High Priest Azariah III, were faithfully observed by the Levitical priesthood for 1019 years, 10 months and 17 days. This is remarkable considering that there were at least four significant periods of time when the Temple was not operating.

For more specific information on the history of 24 Priestly Courses consult the following PDF article:

The 24 Priestly Courses

Viewing the Rosh Chodesh

When viewing any month on the Creation Calendar, it is possible to view how the new moon appears in the evening sky in Jerusalem for either the beginning or end of the month shown. Click on the number 1 on the first day of the month to see a graphic of the new moon which begins this month. Click on the number 29 or 30 on the last day of the month to see a graphic of the new moon which ends this month.

Viewing Solar and Lunar Eclipses

There are 16,645 solar eclipses and 16,874 lunar eclipses in the 7000 Hebrew Year range from 3977 B.C.E. to 3024 C.E. Eclipses occur every few months and are important signs provided by Elohim. Ultimately, eclipses will allow mankind to calibrate the Scriptural 50 year Jubilee Cycle and the epoch of the Creation Calendar. When Elohim confirms the epoch of creation He will simultaneously confirm when the seventh millennium will begin.

All eclipses can be viewed in the Hebrew Months where they occur. Separate icons for solar and lunar eclipses may be seen on the particular Hebrew Days in which they occur. The same eclipse icon is also shown on the left side of the Month Header at the top of the Calendar page. Clicking on an eclipse icon opens the Eclipse Viewer pop-up window where the eclipse can be studied.

The Eclipse Viewer pop-up window appears immediately after clicking on the Lunar Eclipse Icon. This window can be dragged around by clicking and holding down on the border to permit repositioning the Viewer window anywhere on the screen. Click the red X button in the upper right corner to close the Eclipse Viewer window.

Shaded zones shown on the Lunar Eclipse Map display which phase of the eclipse will be potentially visible at various geographic locations during the course of the eclipse. Lunar eclipse phases can consist of the Penumbral, Partial and Total phases. In general, the darker shaded areas see fewer phases while the lighter shaded areas see the most. The diagram in the example below is for a Total Lunar Eclipse which includes all phases. Other types of lunar eclipses may show fewer shaded areas. For example, in the case of a Penumbral Lunar Eclipse, there are only three zones displayed.

The Eclipse Viewer pop-up window appears immediately after clicking on the Solar Eclipse Icon. This window can be dragged around by clicking and holding down on the border to permit repositioning the Viewer window anywhere on the screen. Click the red X button in the upper right corner to close the Eclipse Viewer window.