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2 days ago · Jewish holiday calendars & Hebrew date converter. Holidays, candle-lighting times, and Torah readings for any year, past or present. Download to Apple, Google, Microsoft Outlook and more. Convert between Hebrew and Gregorian dates and see today's date in a Hebrew font.
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Parashat Bechukotai . This week’s Torah portion is Parashat...
- Hebrew Date Converter
Convert Gregorian/civil and Hebrew/Jewish calendar dates....
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Rosh Chodesh 5784 🌒. רֹאשׁ חוֹדֶשׁ, transliterated Rosh...
- Rosh Hashana 2023
Rosh Hashanah (Hebrew: ראש השנה), (literally “head of the...
- Yahrzeit
Yahrzeit refers to the anniversary, according to the Hebrew...
- Ki Tavo 5783
Parashat Ki Tavo 5783 / פָּרָשַׁת כִּי־תָבוֹא. 2 September...
- Korach 5783
Parashat Korach 5783 / פָּרָשַׁת קוֹרַח. 24 June 2023 / 5...
- Pinchas 5783
Parashat Pinchas 5783 / פָּרָשַׁת פִּינְחָס. 8 July 2023 /...
- Eikev 5783
Parashat Eikev 5783 / פָּרָשַׁת עֵקֶב. 5 August 2023 / 18 Av...
- Behar-Bechukotai 5783
Parashat Behar-Bechukotai 5783 / פָּרָשַׁת...
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Jewish time reckoning is lunisolar, which means that the calendar keeps in sync with the natural cycles of both the Sun and the Moon. Featuring a body of complex regulations, exceptions, and mathematical rules, it is also designed to satisfy a number of requirements conveyed in the Jewish Holy Scripture. The Hebrew calendar is a comparatively impre...
A year in the Hebrew calendar can be 353, 354, 355, 383, 384, or 385 days long. Regular common years have 12 months with a total of 354 days. Leap yearshave 13 months and are 384 days long. Months with uneven numbers usually have 30 days, while months with even numbers have 29 days. In addition to these regular (kesidrah) year lengths, both common ...
According to Hebrew time reckoning we are now in the 6th millennium. The Hebrew year count starts in year 3761 BCE, which the 12th-century Jewish philosopher Maimonides established as the biblical Date of Creation. Years in the Jewish calendar are designated AM to identify them as part of the Anno Mundi epoch, indicating the age of the world accord...
Like in the Islamic calendar, months in the Jewish calendar are based on the phases of the Moon. Each month begins with the appearance of a Crescent Moon after the New Moon phase and lasts for a full lunation, a Moon cycle encompassing all phases of the Moon. Moon phases in your city Since the sum of 12 lunar months is about 11 days shorter than a ...
The Jewish calendar is based on a history of time reckoningefforts dating back to ancient times. Both Israelite and Babylonian influences played an important role in its development. According to the account of Persian astronomer al-Khwarizmi (c. 780 – 850 CE), most of the features of its modern-day version were in place by the 9th century CE. In p...
1 day ago · Use this powerful tool to look up any regular / Gregorian calendar date and convert it to its corresponding Jewish date, or vice versa. Today's Hebrew date is: Thursday, Iyar 22, 5784 - May 30, 2024.
Tomorrow is the thirty-seventh day of the Omer Count. Since, on the Jewish calendar, the day begins at nightfall of the previous evening, we count the omer for tomorrow's date tonight, after nightfall: " Today is thirty-seven days, which are five weeks and two days, to the Omer ." (If you miss the count tonight, you can count the omer all day ...
Nissan - Iyar, 5784. Nissan. -. Iyar, 5784. The most comprehensive and advanced Jewish calendar online. Features a brief summary of key events in Jewish history, laws and customs, Shabbat times and more.
The Hebrew calendar ( Hebrew: הַלּוּחַ הָעִבְרִי, romanized : HaLuah HaIvri ), also called the Jewish calendar, is a lunisolar calendar used today for Jewish religious observance and as an official calendar of Israel. It determines the dates of Jewish holidays and other rituals, such as yahrzeits and the schedule of public Torah readings.
