Passover

• God begins the feast calendar with Passover in Leviticus 23:4-5. The feast begins at sundown on the 14th day of the first month, Nisan and lasts for eight days. The Passover, also known as Pesach, celebrates God's redemption of the Hebrews from slavery in Egypt. The Passover feast, called the Seder, has a very precise ritual that replays some of the events that occurred during the original Passover in Egypt.
  
  

Feast of Unleavened Bread

• The Feast of Unleavened Bread, or Chag Hamotzi, falls the day after Passover as noted in Leviticus 23:6-8. Many celebrate Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread as a single feast. The feast commemorates the Jews leaving Egypt without waiting for the bread rise before it was baked. The unleavened bread appears on the Seder table with other symbolic foods.
  
  

Firstfruits

• Firstfruits, or Yom habikkurim, celebrates the harvest on the 16th day of Nisan as directed in Leviticus 23:9-14. Firstfruits begins the counting of the Omer for 49 days which was how long it took for the Hebrews to leave Egypt and arrive at Mount Sinai. God decreed the feast would begin when they arrived in the Promised Land and designated the kind of offerings to be brought.
  
  

Feast of Weeks

• The Feast of Weeks, known as Shavout and Pentecost, occurs 50 days following Firstfruits according to Leviticus 23:15-21. It celebrates the God's gift of the Torah, or Law, to the Jews and their covenant with God.
  
  

Feast of Trumpets

• The Feast of Trumpets, known as Yom Teru'ah, falls on the first day of the seventh month of Tishri according to Leviticus 23:23-25. Celebrated as Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, the feast celebrates the creation of humans. Jews celebrate with sweet foods and blessings. The feast lasts two days and Jewish believers remember on this day that mankind is judged according to what has occurred over the last year. For the next week, the Jews engage in acts of charity, the giving of offering and prayers of forgiveness to affect the final day of judgment on Yom Kippur.
  
  

Day of Atonement,

• The Day of Atonement, or Yom Kippur, falls on the 10th day of Tishri and is the final day of judgment for the year. Leviticus 23:26-32 decrees this as a day of fasting and prayer. The blowing of the shofar trumpet brings this day to a close and then the people may eat.
  
  

Feast of Tabernacles or Booths

• Feast of Tabernacles, described in Leviticus 23:33-43 as Sukkot, occurs on the 15th day of Tishri. The Hebrews build temporary shelters or booths to remind them of the 40 years spent in the wilderness. The sin slate is clean everyone is joyful.