A place to learn the appointed times, whichever tradition you keep them in. Teachings, dates, and honest notes about where each teacher stands.
We are a bookshop, so we have an obvious interest in you buying books. But most of what is on these pages costs nothing, and we would rather you understood the days than owned a shelf about them.
Free printable calendar — every appointed time of 5787 on one page, with the sunset rule and the calendar reckonings on the back. No signup.
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What Are the Moedim?
The appointed times of Leviticus 23 — what the word means, the seven feasts, and why “rehearsal” is not too strong a word.
Yom Teruah
The day of the blast. What it commands, why a shofar and not a trumpet, and how to actually sound one.
The Biblical Calendar
Sighted moon or calculated? Aviv barley or fixed month? Why households a mile apart keep the feasts on different days.
The Torah Portion
The annual reading cycle, where it is right now, and a Messianic reading guide for each week.
Find a Fellowship
The congregational bodies, teaching ministries and directories — sorted by tradition, so you can find your own.
The Moedim Calendar
Every appointed time through Shavuot 2027, with exact dates and what each one asks of a household.
Hebrew Greetings
What to say at a congregation or a feast table, how to pronounce it, and how to answer it.
What a "holy convocation" actually is
Leviticus 23 calls the appointed times miqra kodesh. Most English Bibles render it "holy convocation," which sounds like a church service. The Hebrew root is closer to a summons or a rehearsal — something called out, announced, and gathered for.
That distinction changes how the whole chapter reads, and it is the best fifteen minutes you can spend before studying any individual feast.
“The Hebrew Root of Holy Convocation” · 119 Ministries. A Hebrew Roots teaching ministry that holds Torah applies identically to Jewish and gentile believers — a position Messianic Jewish bodies such as the UMJC and MJAA do not share. Watch it knowing that.
How we label things here
Every teacher on these pages gets a one-line note saying which tradition they teach from. Not as a warning — as context. This community contains real disagreements about who is obligated to keep Torah, how the calendar should be reckoned, and how the divine Name should be spoken. Those arguments are old, they are held sincerely on all sides, and they are not ours to settle.
What we can do is tell you where someone is standing when they speak. A teaching is easier to weigh when you know that.
You will find teachers here from Messianic Jewish congregations, from Hebrew Roots fellowships, and one Karaite Jewish scholar whose work on the biblical calendar is the best available and who does not profess Yeshua as Messiah. All of them are labelled.
A note on the videos
These are embedded from the teachers' own YouTube channels. Watching here supports their channel exactly as it would on YouTube. We have not edited or re-hosted anything, and we are not affiliated with any ministry listed — we simply think these are the clearest teachings available on each subject.
Reading recommendations for each day are on the individual pages, and our curated Sets & Shelves pairs them properly. Any three books take 10% off at checkout.