Table of Contents

The Temple: Its Ministry and Services
Alfred Edersheim

Chapter 10
Festive Cycles and Arrangement of the Calendar

• The Number Seven The number seven as determining the arrangement of the sacred year
• The Three Cycles --The three festive cycles of the year--Difference between the Moed and the Chag--Three general characteristics of the great feasts--Post-Mosaic festivals and fasts
• Three Annual Visits to Temple --Duty of appearing three times a year in the Temple--The 'stationary men' Israel's representatives in the Temple--Their duties
• Difficulties of the Calendar --The Hebrew year lunar--Necessity of introducing leap-years
• The New Moon --How the appearance of the New Moon was officially ascertained and announced--'Full' and 'imperfect' months
• The Seven Messengers of the New Moon
• Names of the Hebrew Months --Origin of the Hebrew names of the months--The 'civil' and the 'sacred' year
• The Eras Used By the Jews
• The Week --Division of the day and of the night--Jewish calendar.