"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.
Read the opening of Vayikra 23 carefully. YHWH does not say "these are the Yehudi holidays." He says "the set feasts of YHWH" — in Ivri, mo'adei YHWH, "the appointed times of YHWH." They belong to Him. He named them, He dated them, He commanded the observance. Yisrael was entrusted with keeping them, but the feasts are the Father's, not the nation's. This matters because the institutional church taught for seventeen centuries that the feasts were "Yehudi" and therefore optional or obsolete. They are neither. They are His, and they still stand.
Sha'ul said exactly this: every moed is "a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Mashiach's" Kolosim 2:17 The feast is the shadow. Yeshua is the substance. You do not keep a shadow by ignoring it — you keep it because it points to Him, and every time you walk through the moed, you walk through another facet of the Mashiach He reveals in it.
The Seven Moedim of Vayikra 23
Pesach פֶּסַח
PassoverYeshua's fulfilment Yeshua is the Pesach, the Lamb sacrificed for His people Korintim Alef 5:7 — crucified on the very day of the lamb.
Read the teaching →Chag HaMatzot חַג הַמַּצּוֹת
Unleavened BreadYeshua's fulfilment Yeshua is the Bread of Life, without leaven (sin). His body in the tomb during the feast — unbroken, uncorrupted.
Read the teaching →Yom HaBikkurim יוֹם הַבִּכּוּרִים
FirstfruitsYeshua's fulfilment Yeshua rose on Firstfruits — "the first fruits of those who are asleep" Korintim Alef 15:20 Not Sunday. This moed.
Read the teaching →Shavuot שָׁבוּעוֹת
Weeks · PentecostYeshua's fulfilment The Ruach HaKodesh poured out on Shavuot (Maasei 2) — Torah given at Sinai, Torah written on hearts fifty days after the resurrection.
Read the teaching →Yom Teruah יוֹם תְּרוּעָה
Day of TrumpetsYeshua's fulfilment The trumpet shall sound at His return — "with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with Elohim's trumpet" Tesalonikim Alef 4:16.
Read the teaching →Yom Kippur יוֹם כִּפּוּר
Yom KippurYeshua's fulfilment Yeshua is the High Priest who entered the true Holy of Holies once for all Ivrim 9:11–12. The atonement He pictures is His own blood.
Read the teaching →Sukkot סֻכּוֹת
Booths · MishkansYeshua's fulfilment Yeshua tabernacled among humanity Yochanan 1:14. The Word became flesh and dwelt — eskēnōsen, pitched His sukkah — with humanity. Likely His true nativity season.
Read the teaching →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 Ivri 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 sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years." The Ivri 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 human institutions — some of them commemorating real events, some of them good, but not commanded by YHWH in His Torah. 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. The site does not add to His list, and it does not subtract from it either.
By the same measure, Christmas (December 25, adopted from Sol Invictus) and Easter (untethered from YHWH's calendar and named after a Germanic dawn goddess) 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 He kept. Those are the dates His followers keep.