{"id":54,"date":"2026-04-16T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spendayearwithjesus.com\/?p=54"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:20:00","slug":"constructing-the-year-scheduling-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Scheduling Jesus: Torah Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus was a devout first-century Jew. Thus, the calendar from the Torah (or Moses&#8217; Law) in the Hebrew Bible established his yearly rhythm.<\/p>\n<p>Holy-days restricted Jesus&#8217; activities. Holiday Feasts required travel to Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>The following are key days and weeks.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sabbath, the seventh day of the week<\/li>\n<li>New Moon, the first day of the month<\/li>\n<li>Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread in Jerusalem, seven days during the first month, spring barley harvest<\/li>\n<li>Feast of Weeks in Jerusalem, seven weeks after Passover, third month, spring wheat harvest<\/li>\n<li>New Year, the first day of the seventh month<\/li>\n<li>Day of Atonement, the tenth day of the seventh month<\/li>\n<li>Feast of Huts (or Tabernacles) in Jerusalem, seven days during the seventh month, fall fruit harvest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On Sabbath and New Moon the Torah ruled that businesses were closed, and people could travel only a limited distance. These restrictions are called Sabbath-rules.<\/p>\n<p>The Day of Atonement included Sabbath-rules for work and a fast from food.<\/p>\n<p>All adult males had to attend the three major Feasts in Jerusalem (1 Unleavened Bread, 2 Weeks, and 3 Huts).<\/p>\n<p>Jesus lived by the rules of the Torah. The Torah established the schedule through which we better understand the weekly, monthly, and yearly rhythms of Jesus&#8217; experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus was a devout first-century Jew. Thus, the calendar from the Torah (or Moses&#8217; Law) in the Hebrew Bible established his yearly rhythm. Holy-days restricted Jesus&#8217; activities. Holiday Feasts required travel to Jerusalem. The following are key days and weeks. Sabbath, the seventh day of the week New Moon, the first day of the month [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telling-the-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}