Know About Jewish Feasts by JordanDiaz

Jewish Christians are also known as Judeo-Christians and they were the people who were part of the Jewish reform movement which later on became the movement of Christianity. During the early stages of the reform movement, the community of Jewish Christians had the Jews who considered Jesus as their messiah (the savior) and were having the same identity as the Christians at that time. With time Christianity became more and more elaborate and Jewish Christians remained as a section of the Christian community. These people accepted Jesus as Christ and at the same time continued practicing the Jewish customs e.g. they followed the Jewish calendar, observed important Jewish feasts, went to synagogue to worship and circumcision. 

There are mainly seven Jewish feasts and the Jewish Christians practice all of them very religiously as per the Jewish custom. For all the feasts, the most common feature is the sacrifice. On the Mount Sinai, God gave the dates of the Jewish feasts to Moses. The calendar of the Jews is based on the phases of moon. Each month in the lunar calendar starts with the new moon. The Jewish feast Pesach or Passover falls on the first full moon of spring. Pesach, Unleavened bread or Chag Hamotzi and First Fruit (Yom habikkurim) falls between March and April. The fourth one Shavuot or Pentecost falls in summer during the late days of May or early days of June. Trumpets, Yom Kippur and Sukkot, the other three feasts of Jewish falls between September to October. 

The Jewish feast Passover is the fest of salvation. It is also called feast of freedom because it is celebrated to commemorate the exodus of the Israelites from the slavery of Egypt and how the faithful people were protected by the blood of the lamb. The second feast unleavened bread is observed by the Jews by eating unleavened bread for seven days. This symbolizes the holy walk with the Lord. The period of Shavuot is the period of transition of the Jews from getting freed from slavery in Egypt to the receiving of their holy book the Torah at Mount Siani. This is the time when Yesua dies till the resurrection of Yeshua. Rosh Hashanah is another Jewish feast that falls in autumn and on the first and second days of Tishri, the Jewish Calendar and is observed in September or October. This feast is also called Yom ha Din or the Judgment Day.