Hebrew year 5787 || Saturday, 12 September 2026

Hebrew year 5787 begins at sundown on Friday, 11 September 2026 (the evening that starts 1 Tishrei). The first full day is Saturday, 12 September 2026. The year is a leap year and one of the longest possible on the Hebrew calendar (385 days). It ends at sundown on 1 October 2027.

Jewish days run from sunset to sunset, so every feast below starts the evening before the civil date most calendars list.

Fall appointed times in 5787

These are the biblical moadim of the seventh month (Leviticus 23) that believers in Jesus commonly treat as rehearsals of His return and reign.

Appointed time	Hebrew date	Gregorian (starts at sunset)	Ends	For believers in Jesus
Yom Teruah (Day of Trumpets)	1–2 Tishrei	Fri 11 Sep 2026 evening	Sun 13 Sep nightfall	Awakening blast, gathering, “last trumpet,” readiness for the King’s appearing
Ten Days of Awe	1–10 Tishrei	11–20 Sep	—	Season of repentance and watchfulness between trumpet and atonement
Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)	10 Tishrei	Sun 20 Sep evening	Mon 21 Sep nightfall	Messiah as High Priest and once-for-all atonement; Israel’s future recognition of the One they pierced
Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles / Booths)	15–21 Tishrei	Fri 25 Sep evening	Fri 2 Oct nightfall	God dwelling with His people; preview of the Kingdom and the wedding feast
Hoshanah Rabbah	21 Tishrei	Thu 1 Oct evening / Fri 2 Oct	—	Final day of Sukkot; “great salvation” / last great cry
Shemini Atzeret (Eighth Day)	22 Tishrei	Fri 2 Oct evening	Sat 3 Oct nightfall	The “eighth day” assembly—God lingering with His people beyond the seven days
Simchat Torah (Diaspora)	23 Tishrei	Sat 3 Oct evening	Sun 4 Oct nightfall	Joy in the Word; in Israel this is combined with Shemini Atzeret

Shabbat Shuva (the Sabbath of Return) falls on 19 September 2026, between Trumpets and Atonement.

How believers can participate

You are not required to keep these days as a law in order to be saved. Jesus already fulfilled the sacrificial system. Many followers of Jesus keep them as appointed rehearsals—the same way the early believers continued in the feasts while seeing their fulfillment in Him (Acts 2; 1 Corinthians 5:7–8; Colossians 2:16–17).

Yom Teruah (this weekend)

• Rest from ordinary work if you are able.
• Hear or blow a shofar (or simply listen to a recording and read 1 Thessalonians 4:16–18 and 1 Corinthians 15:51–52).
• Share a meal with apples and honey or round bread as a sign of hope, then pray for a year of waking up, not of date-setting.
• Read Genesis 22 (the ram provided) and remember the Lamb God provided.

The ten days that follow
Use them as a focused time of confession, reconciliation, and examining whether you are living awake. That is the original spirit of the season, now done in the finished work of Jesus rather than to earn a place in a book.

Yom Kippur (20–21 September)

• Many believers fast (food, or a modified fast) not to atone for sin—that is already done—but to identify with Israel’s need, to mourn over the world, and to thank the High Priest who entered the true sanctuary with His own blood (Hebrews 9–10).
• Read Isaiah 53, Zechariah 12:10, and Hebrews 9–10.
• Pray for the salvation of Israel and for a clean conscience before the Lord.

Sukkot (25 September – 2 October)
This is the most joyful and the most “doable” feast for families.

• Eat at least one meal outdoors, under a simple shelter, porch, or leafy covering.
• Read John 7 (Jesus at Sukkot) and Revelation 21:3 (“the dwelling of God is with man”).
• Give thanks that the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us, and that He will dwell with us openly.
• If you have children, build a small booth. It is a living picture of temporary life and coming permanence.

Shemini Atzeret
A quieter extra day of lingering with God after the week of booths—fitting for worship, Scripture, and rest.

A simple posture for this year

5787 opens on a Sabbath and on the Feast of Trumpets at the same time. That is unusual. You do not need a hidden code in the year-number. The invitation is the same as it has always been:

• Hear the blast.
• Remember the Lord who came and who is coming.
• Keep oil in the lamp.
• Rejoice that the same calendar that marked His first coming still marks the hope of His appearing.

If you can only keep one thing this month, keep Yom Teruah this Friday evening through Sunday as a watch-night and a trumpet-day, then walk the ten days toward Yom Kippur in repentance and hope, and finish with Sukkot as a feast of dwelling. That is a full rehearsal of the fall story: He comes — we are made clean — He stays.