Move from wakefulness and repentance into mercy, rejoicing, and dwelling with God.

Tishrei is the seventh month in the Torah’s spring-based numbering and the month in which Jewish year numbering turns. It carries Yom Teruah/Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, and Shemini Atzeret. For Christians, the month offers a concentrated invitation to wake up, repent, receive mercy, rejoice, and make room for God and people.

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Passover / Feast of Unleavened Bread is coming into view.

Open the guide before the day arrives. Read the main Scripture passages, put the date on your calendar, and decide whether a meal, gathering, rest day, invitation, or other preparation would help your household participate.

Begins at local sunset on the evening of April 21.

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This week & this month

See what is coming soon enough to prepare for it.

Keep the next Shabbat and the next Hebrew month in front of you so there is time to finish work, protect rest, read ahead, and make room for people before the calendar fills up.

2026-10-09–2026-10-10

Shabbat

Shabbat gives the week a place to stop ordinary work, worship, eat together, rest, and enjoy the people God has given you. Use a trusted local calendar or community source for exact sunset and candle-lighting times.

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2026-10-11–2026-10-12

Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan

The next Hebrew month begins soon. Read the month guide ahead of time, look over the family calendar, and decide where prayer, rest, generosity, and any approaching feast will actually fit.

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Make room for the whole Tishrei journey

Tishrei carries several major appointed times close together. Prepare enough margin to receive the sequence with attention, worship, repentance, and joy.

Put Yom Teruah/Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, and Shemini Atzeret on the calendar before the month begins.
Choose one relationship where repentance, forgiveness, or repair deserves attention.
Plan at least one unhurried meal or gathering shaped by gratitude, hospitality, and joy.

Pray with understanding

Carry people and places before God.

When the world is hurting, prayer is more than awareness. Bring real people, leaders, communities, and needs before Jesus with faith, compassion, and clear understanding.

Pray faithfully where God has placed you today.

For your household and local church: wisdom, healing, unity, courage, and provision.
For leaders and peacemakers: justice, restraint, truth, and protection for the vulnerable.
For people facing war, persecution, disaster, displacement, or grief: rescue, comfort, provision, and faithful help.
For your neighborhood and the nations God brings to mind: ask the Holy Spirit where to pray, give, encourage, or serve.

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Go deeper

See the season through Scripture.

Follow the thread through the feasts, the Jewish world of the Bible, and the story of the church. Then bring it home.

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