We are very confused as to when the feasts start and stop, Which days of the three feasts are Sabbaths, and what is suppose to be done for each? Please help.

Yep, same questions every year.

I am happy to report that this year I have no questions. Feast, Family, Yahweh. Enjoy, Teach, Learn.

Anything definitive would be the start of a whole new religion and I think we all know where that leads.

I'm pretty much in the same mind set as the rest.
I have a leg of lamb I plan on grilling up for passover, gonna get some matsah, haven't decided if I want to give making it a go but my wife might, a nice class of wine, and some bitter herbs, as well as a few side dishes. Then me and my wife will probably spend the rest of the night discussing and reading about the feast, and continue into the next day.
While we don't need to follow it to the T, it is fun and informative to read through all the steps, and discuss and understand the symbolism of everything that was delineated remember nothing in Yahuweh's instructions is extra or for naught it all has a meaning.

But most of all, just have a good time and enjoy time with your family, and your father.

Absolutely, In my mind the whole feast is a prayer, a time to be with Father Yah and family and friends.

James, your wife would love to make some fresh unleavened bread. :)

I can remember doing that with my family when I was young. It is a great way to reflect on what Yahuweh has done for us. I also like

That is really the important part.

Yes Have a great one guys :D

I can't find it anywhere Rob, would you mind reposting it, my wife has promised to make me some. :)

Thanks

I thought Passover was on 3/30, Tuesday, and UB on Wednesday, 3/31???? I celebrated UB on Wednesday, and went back to work on Thursday!

Ugh!!

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The first day of the Feast is the 15th of the first month (Tuesday the 30th this year) and the seventh day is on Monday April 5.

That's basically how I see it.
We've had lots of discussion about this in our group.

My understanding is this:
Keep the lamb from the 10th "until" the 14th day, and kill it at evening.
The original meaning was evening, the start of the 14th day. (Genesis -- evening, morning... the first day...)
At midnight on the 14th day, death came through Egypt.
The people hustled out of Egypt, for the express purpose of a Feast to Yahweh in the Wilderness -- on the 15th day.

We are told that the 14th is a "memorial of the sacrifice of Yahweh's passover"; but it is not a holy convocation.
(In my mind, that's because the Messiyah could not be sacrificed on a holy convocation.)

Even though you eat unleavened bread in the Passover, the 14th is the Passover, and the 15th is the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. As John 19 says, they had to get Yahshua off the pole and into the grave before sunset (the end of) the 14th day -- start of the 15th day, because "that sabbath was an high day" -- the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. On the seventh day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, another Holy Convocation.

But during the Babylonian captivity, Israel picked up the Babylonian interpretation of the word "evening", what we would call afternoon, before sunset; and began slaughtering their lambs toward the end of the 14th day.
This confusion is still with us today; but the beautiful thing about it is, it let our Messiyah eat the Passover at the "correct" time with His disciples (not early); and yet be sacrificed at the same time as the priests were slaughtering the Passover lambs for Israel (because they were late); at the end of the 14th.

Although the 14th is not a holy convocation, I took the day as a "memorial of the sacrifice". I'm fortunate I was able to spend it (Sunday night and Monday) fellowshipping and worshipping with like minded believers. They met again on Tuesday -- I took the day off work, and spent it with the family; including reading Exodus with my 8yo daughter.

Hallelu-yah!

Does "between the evenings" mean half way between noon (when the sun "begins" its descent), and 6 pm (when the sun finalizes its setting on the horizon)? If that is the case, then 3 pm would be in the "middle" or "between" the evenings.

Also, should the lamb be slaughtered at the beginning of the 14th (3 - 6 pm - at the end of the 13th?) So, are you saying that the Jews in 33 CE were slaughtering their lambs a day late? The Passover meal Yahushua and the disciples shared was the correct time; but then, how would anyone have time to roast the lamb? Were they supposed to eat it during the night, around midnight or later?

kp,

Your response doesn't make sense to me.

If the Israelites in Egypt killed the lamb toward the end of the 14th, and ate the meal after sundown (beginning of the 15th), that puts them beginning their journey on the 15th. But the 15th is a sabbath, not a day of travel. Moses told Pharoah that they had to leave, in order to have a feast to Yah in the wilderness (travel on the 14th, feast on the 15th.)

They took their lamb on the 10th, kept it "up until the 14th day" (not until the end of the 14th day, or through the 14th day, UNTIL the 14th day, which means the start of the day), killed it, cooked it, ate it with staff in hands and shoes on feet. The angel passed through Egypt during the night of the 14th, ("for I will pass through the land of Egypt this night" -- not the next night --Exodus 12:12) and they left that morning.

"And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of Yahweh's passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped." Exodus 12:26,27

How did they celebrate in the wilderness? "And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai" (Numbers 9:5)


Yahshua indicated that it was:
"And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:" Luke 22:15

Matthew, Mark, and Luke sure seem to go to great lengths to repeat that it IS the passover:

Matthew 26:
17Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?
18And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.
19And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover.
20Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve.
21And as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.

Mark 14:
12And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?
13And he sendeth forth two of his disciples, and saith unto them, Go ye into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water: follow him.
14And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the house, The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?
15And he will shew you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us.
16And his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.
17And in the evening he cometh with the twelve.
18And as they sat and did eat, Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, One of you which eateth with me shall betray me.

Luke 22:
7Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.
8And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat.
9And they said unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare?
10And he said unto them, Behold, when ye are entered into the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he entereth in.
11And ye shall say unto the goodman of the house, The Master saith unto thee, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?
12And he shall shew you a large upper room furnished: there make ready.
13And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.
14And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him.
15And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:

The confusion over the meaning of "evening" came from the Israelites' time in Babylon. To Yahweh, evening is the start of the day; to Babylon it was the end. 'Ereb' is the same word used in Genesis, (it was evening, it was morning, the first day). Yahweh used this confusion -- Yahshua ate the Passover at the "correct" time with His disciples (after killing the lamb at the start of the 14th); AND was Himself sacrificed at the same time that the priests were killing the lambs toward the end of the 14th.