Please note, the calendars mentioned in the links above under the heading "Free calendars, Siddurs & Pesach Seder" are based on the actual sun, moon and stars; not the traditional Jewish calendar which is based on an "average moon", and rabbinical additions and changes. (Note also,that the above links contain several other downloadable items besides "our" yearly calendars!) In the table below, if the traditional calendar date differed from ours, the "Traditional" column would reflect that date. (Note also this table is designed for display in HTML and will not display properly as plain text.)

High Holy Days for 2025:

* Note: Passover is actually only one day, which begins in the late afternoon of the 14th of Nisan. While the celebration of Passover continues after sunset the 14th, the Feast of Matzah (Unleavened Bread) begins that same afternoon (Exodus 12:18) and continues for the week. The term "Passover" is sometimes used to describe the whole week including the Feast of Matzah.

** Note: The traditional Jewish calendar always has Shavuot on the 6th of Sivan, by "rule", while on some years Shavuot is actually on the 5th of Sivan by the "real" moon. (We retain this note so readers will be aware that it is possible for Shavuot to fall on the 5th, 6th, or 7th of Sivan, if either of the preceding 2 months, (Nisan or Iyar), requires a 30th day, or if both preceding months are only 29 days! This can happen when actually using the moon to determine the beginning of the month rather than by a "computation" using averages. The traditional Jewish calendar "requires" Shavuot to fall on the 6th regardless what the moon indicates and does so by "forcing" one month of 29 days and the other of 30 days in the two months preceding Shavuot every year. )

(Neither our calendar nor the traditional calendar of Judaism rely on the the "Sighted Moon". The "Sighted Moon" calendar will nearly always differ from both the traditional calendar and this calendar because it does not begin the 1st day of the new month until the moon is well over a day old by the time it is "sighted". Similarly, neither our calendar nor the traditional calendar of Judaism determine the 1st day of the new month as the day of the conjunction as some calendars advocate. Indeed, our calendar recognizes that sighting the new crescent moon is (and was historically) only a confirmation/sanctification that the new month had already begun. Unfortunately, the idea that the new month began only upon sighting the new crescent morphed over time into "the way it was" done, and that is pretty much what people read about since few have actually ever looked into the issue, or actually watched the moon.)

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