Passover 2022

April 2022 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 April Fools Day Friday April 1 -2 years, -8 months, -21 days or -996 days 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Palm Sunday Sunday April 10 -2 years, -8 months, -12 days or -987 days 11 12 13 14 15 Good Friday Friday April 15 -2 years, -8 months, -7 days or -982 days 16 Passover Saturday April 16 -2 years, -8 months, -6 days or -981 days 17 Easter Sunday April 17 -2 years, -8 months, -5 days or -980 days 18 19 20 21 22 Earth Day Friday April 22 -2 years, -8 months or -975 days 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

Passover for the year 2022 starts on the evening of Friday, April 15th and ends the 7 day festival at sunset on Friday, April 22nd for Reform and progressive Jews living inside Israel who follow the Biblical text. For Orthodox, Hasidic, and generally Jews outside Israel the festival lasts 8 days ending at sunset on Saturday, April 23rd. For the Jewish calendar night begins before day, thus the holiday or festival begins on the sunset of the previous day.

Passover is a spring festival that begins in the months of March or April on the Gregorian calendar. Passover starts on the 15th day of the month of Nisan which is on the first night of a full moon after the northern vernal equinox (except leap months can make the festival start after the second full moon after the northern vernal equinox as in the year 2016).

The 7 or 8 day festival is one of the most important celebrations on the Hebrew calendar commemorating the emancipation of the Israelites from slavery in ancient Egypt. It begins with families gathering together the first night (first 2 nights for many communities outside Israel) for dinner called seder (meaning “order” of “arrangement” in Hebrew) and ends 7 to 8 days later.

Why do Jewish holidays start at nighttime?

According to the Torah, the story of creation in Genesis says “And it was evening, and it was morning day one”, “And it was evening, and it was morning; the second day”, thus night comes before day. So for the Jewish calendar all days begin at nightfall and end the next day at nightfall including holidays.

Days to Passover 2022

Saturday, April 16th is day number 106 of the 2022 calendar year with -2 years, -8 months, -6 days until the start of the celebration of Passover 2022.