DATES 2012 (according to moon phases)

Event(s) Name Jewish Calendar Gregorian Calendar

sanctified Rosh Chodesh * The First Month (Aviv) Thursday
New Moon * FIRST DAY OF THE LUNAR CALENDAR 28 Adar 5772 March 22, 2012
* First mitzvah given to Moshe/Moses (Shemot/Exodus 12:1-2)
sanctified Pesach (Passover) Friday
Full Moon * beginning of harvest 14 Nisan 5772 April 6, 2012
* freed from slavery

New Moon sanctified Rosh Chodesh * The Second Month 29 Nisan 5772 Saturday
* construction anniversary 2nd Temple April 21, 2012
Yom HaAtzmaut (64rd Anniversary of Independence for State of Israel * 4 Iyar 5772 Thursday
5 Iyar 5708 or May 14, 1948) April 26, 2012

Pesach Sheni (2nd Passover) 14 Iyar 5772 Sunday

May 6, 2012
sanctified Rosh Chodesh * The Third Month Saturday
New Moon and Solar * Israelites entered into the Covenant (during 3rd month) 28 Iyar 5772
Eclipse Across Pacific May 20, 2012
Yom Yerushalayim (Day of Jerusalem's Reunification 1967)
sanctified Shavuot
* Shavuot occurs 50 days after Pesach 5 Sivan 5772 Saturday
* New Testament's actual Pentecost May 26, 2012
* End of barley and beginning of wheat harvests
Partial Lunar Eclipse: Monday
Visible to Australia, - 14 Sivan 5772 June 4, 2012
eastern Asia, Americas

New Moon sanctified Rosh Chodesh * The Fourth Month 29 Sivan 5772 Tuesday
June 19, 2012

The Three Weeks of Destruction of Jerusalem 18 Tammuz 5772 Saturday

July 8, 2012

New Moon sanctified Rosh Chodesh * The Fifth Month 29 Tammuz Thursday
July 19, 2012

2012 OLYMPICS BEGIN IN LONDON 8 Av 5772 Friday

July 27, 2012
Tisha B'Av 10 Av 5772 Sunday
(Fast remembers destruction of the 1st & 2nd Temples) July 29, 2012

New Moon sanctified Rosh Chodesh * The Sixth Month 29 Av 5772 Thursday
August 17, 2012

New Moon sanctified Rosh Chodesh * The Seventh Month 29 Elul 5772 Sunday
September 16, 2012

Rosh HaShanah (“New Year” for all people) 1 Tishrei 5773 Monday
September 17, 2012

Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) 10 Tishrei 5773 Wednesday

September 26, 2012
Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) 15 Tishrei 5773 Monday
*Autumn harvest October 1, 2012
Hoshanah Rabbah (Last Day of Sukkot and Final Sealing of 21 Tishrei 5773 Sunday
Judgement) October 7, 2012

New Moon sanctified Rosh Chodesh * The Eighth Month 29 Tishrei 5773 Monday
October 15, 2012
New Moon and Total
Solar Eclipse: Visible to sanctified Rosh Chodesh * The Ninth Month 28 Cheshvan 5773 Tuesday
Australia, southern November 13, 2012
Pacific
Penumbral Lunar Eclipse:
Not Visible to S. America
- 14 Kislev 5773 Wednesday
or eastern N. America or November 28, 2012
western Africa

New Moon sanctified & observed (erev) Rosh Chodesh * The Tenth Month 29 Kislev 5773 Thursday
December 13, 2012

LAST DAY OF MAYAN CALENDAR 8 Tevet 5773 Friday

December 21, 2012

New Moon sanctified & observed (erev) Rosh Chodesh * The Eleventh Month 29 Tevet 5773 Friday
January 11, 2013

New Moon sanctified & observed (erev) Rosh Chodesh * The Twelfth Month 30 Shevat 5773 Sunday
February 10, 2013

New Moon sanctified & observed (erev) Rosh Chodesh * The Thirteenth Month 29 Adar 5773 Monday
March 11, 2013