Seventh Month - Tishri: This Month in Bible History
Seventh Month September 23 – October 22, 2025
In the Bible, God gives each month on HIS Calendar a numerical name and HE tells Moses this is HIS calendar and the people are to live by it. There are twelve months in a year and the 7th month of HIS year is simply named, Seventh Month counting from the month of Nisan; its bibilical name is “First Month.” This certainly makes it easy for all of us to follow HIS calendar no matter what generation or nation you are in. The Seventh Month is one of the holiest months of the year with three of God’s Appointed Times (High Holy Days) all occurring within these 30 days. The “Seventh Month” falls in the autumn season and usually occurs between mid-September to mid-October on the Gregorian calendar that we use in the United States.
The vast majority of Jewish communities today call this month by its Babylonian name “Tishri.” The name Tishrei/Tishri was brought back by the Jewish people from their Babylonian exile and it means “to begin”. During the first and second centuries CE, rabbinic leaders made Tishrei the first month on the Jewish Calendar, marking it as the beginning of the civil year, according to the Hebrew calendar, as explained by the הספרנים. Today in those communities, the first day of the Seventh Month is now called Rosh Hashanah which literally means “head of the year,” and today it is celebrated as the Jewish New Year.
The biblical themes of the Seventh Month are:
• Awakening (Trumpets)
• Repentance & Mercy (Atonement)
• Joyful Dwelling (Tabernacles)
• Renewal of Covenant (Moses’ return)
• Messianic Fulfillment (Birth of Yeshua (Jesus), Living Water)
• Glory & Presence (Temple Dedication)
In scripture there are a number of references to the Seventh Month. In chaper 7 of the book of John in the New Testament, we read how Yeshua attended the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot). Also the Seventh Month is referred to as the “Ethanim or Etanim “in 1 Kings 8:2-3 in the Complete Jewish Bible it says: All the men of Isra’el assembled before King Shlomo (King Solomon) at the festival in the month of Etanim, the Seventh Month. All the leaders of Isra’el came.
Feast of Trumpets
(Yom Teruah)
1st Day of the Seventh Month
September 22, 2025 at sundown
Day of Atonement
(Yom Kippur)
10th Day of the Seventh Month
October 1, 2025 at sundown
Feast of Tabernacles
(Sukkot – 7 Days)
Begins on the 15th Day of the Seventh Month
Begins October 6, 2025 at sundown thru Oct 21
The name “Seventh Month” appears 31 times in the Bible, and each mention carries weight—whether it’s tied to sacred festivals, prophetic events, or historical turning points. Here’s a breakdown of the kinds of references:
Festivals & Holy Days
- Leviticus 23 and Numbers 29 detail the Feast of Trumpets, Day of Atonement, and Feast of Tabernacles—all anchored in the seventh month.
- Ezra 3:1, 3:6 and Nehemiah 8:1–2 describe the people gathering to hear the Law and offer sacrifices in the seventh month after returning from exile.
Temple Dedication
- 1 Kings 8:2 and 2 Chronicles 5:3 mark the dedication of Solomon’s Temple during this month.
Prophetic & Historical Events
- Jeremiah 41:1 and 2 Kings 25:25 recount the assassination of Gedaliah, a tragic event that led to further exile.
- Zechariah 7:5 and 8:19 reflect on fasting and mourning in the seventh month, later transformed into joy and celebration.
Symbolic Transitions
- Psalm 81:3 and other verses link trumpet blasts and new moon celebrations to this month’s spiritual rhythm.
Here are just some of the Biblical events that occured in the Seventh Month (Tishri).
- 1-2 Tishrei – The Feast of Trumpets (Yom Teruah). – Leviticus 23:24 GOD SAID, “Speak to the children of Israel saying, in the Seventh Month on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets (shofar horns) a holy convocation.” The biblical name for this holiday is Yom Teruah, literally “day of shouting or blowing”. The command from GOD is to blow the shofar horn, to pay attention! It is the first of the Fall Feast Days specified by Leviticus 23:23–32 and occurs in the early autumn of the Northern Hemisphere.
- 1 Tishrei (circa. 3760 BCE) –Adam & Eve were created, according to one opinion in the Talmud.
- 4 Tishrei (1683 CE) – King Louis XIV expelled the Jews from all French territories in America.
- 8 Tishrei (circa 826 BCE) – 14-day dedication of Solomon‘s Temple begins.
- 10 Tishrei – Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) (Fast Day) – Leviticus 23:27-32 GOD SAID, “The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. Hold a sacred assembly and deny yourselves,[d] and present a food offering to the Lord. 28 Do not do any work on that day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the Lord your God. 29 Those who do not deny themselves on that day must be cut off from their people. 30 I will destroy from among their people anyone who does any work on that day. 31 You shall do no work at all. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live. 32 It is a day of sabbath rest for you, and you must deny yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to observe your sabbath.”
- 10 Tishrei—The Transfiguration of Yeshua (Jesus) with Moses and Elijah before the Disciples. (Matt. 17:1-9; Mark 9: 2-10). (Michael Rood’s Astronomically & Agriculturally Corrected Biblical Hebrew Calendar)
- 10 Tishrei (circa 1313 BCE) – Moses returns from Mount Sinai, bearing a second set of tablets and a message of forgiveness for the sin of the Golden Calf.
- 15 Tishrei– The Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) begins Day 1 of 7 days) – Leviticus 23:34-37 GOD SAID. “
“Say to the Israelites: ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the Lord’s Festival of Tabernacles begins, and it lasts for seven days. 35 The first day is a sacred assembly; do no regular work. 36 For seven days present food offerings to the Lord, and on the eighth day hold a sacred assembly and present a food offering to the Lord. It is the closing special assembly; do no regular work. 37 These are the Lord’s appointed festivals, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies …”
- 15 Tishrei –The WORD was made flesh, Yeshua is born in 3 BCE. (Michael Rood’s Astronomically & Agriculturally Corrected Biblical Hebrew Calendar)
- 15-16 Tishrei — Yeshua/Jesus 30th year begins. (Michael Rood’s Astronomically & Agriculturally Corrected Biblical Hebrew Calendar)
- 16 Tishrei (1349 CE) – The Jewish population of Krems, Germany, was massacred in the Black Death riots.
- 22 Tishrei—Yeshua proclaims the Latter Rain. (Michael Rood’s Astronomically & Agriculturally Corrected Biblical Hebrew Calendar)
- 22 Tishrei – Shmini Atzeret: The Last Great Day – Eighth Day of Assembly (Feast). (Michael Rood’s Astronomically & Agriculturally Corrected Biblical Hebrew Calendar)
- 23 Tishrei – Disciples, 35 pairs of Yeshua’s (Jesus) followers are sent out on assignment until Hanukkah. (Michael Rood’s Astronomically & Agriculturally Corrected Biblical Hebrew Calendar)