Table of Contents
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. |