When religious calendars collide

[Lulav]

While making a couple of threads recently I thought about how various world religions 'special days' can sometimes be close together and then at times far apart. Of course this has to do with different calendars and traditions but is there more spiritual meaning in it as well?

For the 2019 year we have:

January 20th

• World Religion Day - Baha'i
• Tu BiShavat - Jewish

March 20-21

20th Equinox

-----------Ostara - Mabon * - Wicca/Pagan Northern and Southern hemispheres

21st

-----------Norooz (New Year) - Persian/Zoroastrian
-----------Naw-Rúz (New Year) * - Baha'i
-----------Hola Mohalla - Sikh
-----------Magha Puja Day ** - Buddhist
-----------Lord's Evening Meal - Jehovah's Witness Christian
-----------Purim * - Jewish

It gets more interesting..

April

3 Laylat al Miraj * - Islam

14 Baisakhi (Vaisakhi) - Sikh
Palm Sunday - Christian

17 Orthodox Sunday - Orthodox Christian

18 Maundy Thursday - Christian

19-21 Theravadin New Year - Buddhist
19 Good Friday - Christian
19-20 Pesach - Jewish

20-27 Feast of Unleavened Bread - Jewish
21 Beginning of the counting of the Omer
21 Easter - Christian
First Day of Ridvan * - Baha'i
Lailat al Bara'ah * - Islam
Palm Sunday - Orthodox Christian

26 Holy Friday - Orthodox Christian
28 Pascha - Easter - Orthodox Christian


Laylat al Miraj---Islam
The night journey and ascent of the Prophet Muhammad, and the revelation of Salat.

The festival is celebrated by telling the story of how the Prophet Muhammad was visited by two archangels while he was asleep, who purified his heart and filled him with knowledge and faith.
The Prophet travelled from Mecca to Jerusalem in a single night on a strange winged creature called Buraq. From Jerusalem he ascended into heaven, where he met the earlier prophets, and eventually God.
During his time in heaven Muhammad was told of the duty of Muslims to recite Salat (ritual prayer) five times a day.
Baisakhi (Vaisakhi)---a spring harvest festival for the Sikhs
Theravadin New Year--- Buddist new year
First Day of Ridvan- a 12 day festival in the Bahá'í Faith, commemorating Bahá'u'lláh's declaration that he was a Manifestation of God.
Lailat al Bara'ah--- Islam -- a holiday observed by Muslim communities on the night between 14 and 15 Sha'ban. It is regarded as a night when the fortunes of individuals for the coming year are decided and when Allah may forgive sinners.


May --

• 1Beltane - Samhain * - Wicca/Pagan Northern and Southern hemispheres
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• 2 Last day of Ridvan * - Baha'i
  • National Day of Prayer USA - Interfaith
  • Yom HaShoah - Jewish - Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust
• 6 Ramadan begins * - Islam
• 7-8 Yom Hazikaron - Jewish -- Israels Memorial Day of those who fought to make her a nation again.
  
• 9 8-9 -Yom Ha’atzmaut - Jewish --Israels Independence day - 61 yrs old this year
• 18 Visakha Puja - Buddha Day ** - Buddhist
• 23
  • Declaration of the Bab * - Baha'i
  • Lag B'Omer * - Jewish 33rd day of counting of the omer - the only day for a wedding in the 49 day period from Passover to Shavuot
• 29Ascension of Baha'u'llah * - Baha'i
• 30Ascension of Jesus - Christian

And June

• 
  
• 1 Laylat al Kadr * - Islam
• 5-7 Eid al Fitr * - Islam
• 6 Ascension of Jesus - Orthodox Christian
• 9 St. Columba of Iona - Celtic Christian
  • Pentecost - Christian
• 9-10 Shavuot * - Jewish
• 15 Saint Vladimir Day - Christian
• 
  
• 16 Guru Arjan martyrdom - Sikh
  • Trinity Sunday - Christian
• 19
  • New Church Day - Swedenborgian Christian
• 20
  • Corpus Christi - Catholic Christian
• 21 Solstice
  • Litha - Yule * - Wicca/Pagan Northern and Southern hemispheres
• 22
  • First Nations Day - Canadian Native People
• 23
  • All Saints - Orthodox Christian
• 28
  • Sacred Heart of Jesus - Catholic Christian
• 29
  • Feast Day of Saints Peter and Paul - Christian

 

[AbbaLove]

Is Paul speaking just to non-Jewish Christians ?​

Colossians 2:15-18 (Complete Jewish Bible)​

15 Stripping the rulers and authorities of their power, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by means of the stake.​

16 So don’t let anyone pass judgment on you in connection with eating and drinking, or in regard to a Jewish festival or Rosh-Hodesh or Shabbat.
17 These are a shadow of things that are coming, but the body is of the Messiah.
18 Don’t let anyone deny you the prize by insisting that you engage in self-mortification or angel-worship. Such people are always going on about some vision they have had, and they vainly puff themselves up by their worldly outlook.

Hillel II, held the office of Nasi of the ancient Jewish Sanhedrin between 320 and 385 CE. Therefore he had the authority to go back to the default position when the Sanhedrin was threatened with extinction if they continued to sight the new moon.

According to the Torah Creation Calandar based on NASA calculations Pesach began this year at sunset on March 22nd and Shavuot Pentecost occurs begins at sunset on May 11th ... TorahCalendar.com​

 

[Lulav]

Is Paul speaking just to non-Jewish Christians ?​

Colossians 2:15-18 (Complete Jewish Bible)​

15 Stripping the rulers and authorities of their power, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by means of the stake.
16 So don’t let anyone pass judgment on you in connection with eating and drinking, or in regard to a Jewish festival or Rosh-Hodesh or Shabbat.
17 These are a shadow of things that are coming, but the body is of the Messiah.
18 Don’t let anyone deny you the prize by insisting that you engage in self-mortification or angel-worship. Such people are always going on about some vision they have had, and they vainly puff themselves up by their worldly outlook.

Hillel II, held the office of Nasi of the ancient Jewish Sanhedrin between 320 and 385 CE. Therefore he had the authority to go back to the default position when the Sanhedrin was threatened with extinction if they continued to sight the new moon.

According to the Torah Creation Calandar based on NASA calculations Pesach began this year at sunset on March 22nd and Shavuot Pentecost occurs begins at sunset on May 11th ... TorahCalendar.com​

This thread wasn't about just Passover, I'm not sure what you're trying to say here or why you are making it about Passover.

BTW I don't make much of NASA calculations.

 

[AbbaLove]

Of course this has to do with different calendars and traditions but is there more spiritual meaning in it as well ?

Doesn't that depend on which calendar "tradition" is being controlled by which man-made tradition that's corrupted by a religious "spirit" ...
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Colossians 2:15 (Complete Jewish Bible)

15 Stripping the rulers and authorities of their power, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by means of the stake.​

Your lengthy post of calendar dates gives credence to Yeshua's words (John 8:44-45) as well as Paul's Spiritually inspired words ...

Colossians 2:16-17 (Complete Jewish Bible)
16 So don’t let anyone pass judgment on you in connection with eating and drinking, or in regard to a Jewish festival or Rosh-Hodesh or Shabbat.
17 These are a shadow of things that are coming, but the body is of the Messiah.​

Makes one surmise that Paul's words were intended primarily for non-Jewish Christian believers in Moshiach Yeshua. Gentile Christians that may have not felt welcome even in the outer Court of the Gentiles during the Jewish Festivals.​