"These are the set feasts of YHWH, even kodesh convocations, which you shall proclaim in their appointed season." Vayikra 23:4 · KWS
The Appointed Times Belong to YHWH
Not Yehudi holidays. His own feasts.
The Father settles the ownership question in the sentence that introduces them. He does not call them Israel's feasts, or the nation's, or the season's: "The set feasts of YHWH, which you shall proclaim to be kodesh convocations, even these are my set feasts" Vayikra 23:2 My set feasts. Israel was entrusted with keeping them, the way a steward is entrusted with a house he did not build. Entrusted is not the same as owning, and a steward cannot retire what he was handed.
And every one of them points somewhere. Ivrim says the law carries "a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things" Ivrim 10:1 A shadow is not a nothing — it is proof that something solid is standing in the light. The moed is the shadow. Yeshua is what casts it.
Plus Weekly and Monthly
Shabbat every seven days. Rosh Chodesh every new moon.
Shabbat is the first moed listed in Vayikra 23 (verse 3), before any of the seven annual feasts — weekly, from Friday sundown to Saturday sundown, unmoved since the sixth evening of creation. See Shabbat for the full teaching.
Rosh Chodesh — the new moon that begins each Hebrew month — was marked with its own offering in Torah Bamidbar 28:11–15. YHWH's calendar is luni-solar because He said so in Bereshit 1:14: "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years" The Hebrew word for "seasons" there is moadim — His appointed times. The moon is the clock He hung in the sky on day four to keep them by.
"You have made the mitzvah of Elohim void because of your tradition." Mattityahu 15:6 · KWS
Not Here: Hanukkah, Purim, Tisha B'Av, Modern Holidays
Only what YHWH commanded.
This site keeps only the moedim the Father Himself named. Hanukkah, Purim, Tisha B'Av, and the modern state holidays of the twentieth century are not commanded. Yeshua warned the pattern: "You have made the mitzvah of Elohim void because of your tradition" Mattityahu 15:6 What He asked for is enough.
By the same measure, Christmas and Easter — untethered from YHWH's calendar at Nicaea — are not observed here. They are the institutional church's replacements for moedim the Father already gave. Yeshua was likely born at Sukkot. He rose on Firstfruits. Those are the dates His followers keep. The full account is on Pesach.