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.
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