#jewish calendar

[mostpeculiarmademoiselleetmsieur]

Hey all. Just wanted to give my non-Jewish followers who might be curious about our calendar a little note.

I had a friend ask about Passover this morning, because they thought it always overlapped with Good Friday and Easter.

So, here’s the thing: The Jewish/Hebrew calendar is a lunar calendar. It doesn’t follow the Gregorian/English calendar, which follows the sun. Each of our months is 29 or 30 days long, following the lunar cycle, and the holidays fall on different says of the English calendar every year because of that. Also because of that difference, a leap year adds an entire month for us, rather than just a day, so that the seasons in which our holidays occur don’t change, since our holidays are mainly based around the seasons and not just the calendar dates.

So, because it’s a leap year—and, yes, it’s pretty much the same schedule with leap years in the Hebrew calendar as the English calendar—we’re currently towards the end of Adar 1, and Purim, the holiday we celebrate during Adar, will be celebrated during Adar 2. This also moves Passover out to late April this year.

This isn’t a very comprehensive explanation, but I thought it might be helpful or interesting to those of you who might be curious about the difference between our calendars.

[ricekrispyjoints]

today my boss asked me if they had "published the dates" for rosh hashanah and yom kippour this year so he could coordinate my time off

[babka-enjoyer]

I found this MAGNIFICENT circular depiction of the Jewish calendar by Claymil on Redbubble (link is in their ig bio) and bought it immediately. I love that it’s sandwiched between celestial elements and includes the agricultural cycle.

I’m going to put 6 sawtooth hangers around the frame so the current season is always oriented up-ish. It would be even cooler if I could attach it to something that mounts to the wall and spins but I haven’t seen anything that fits the bill yet.

Edit: Also I cut it into a circle. It definitely did not come like that.

[garlic-and-cloves]

I love that since I started paying more attention to the Jewish calendars and marking each Rosh Chodesh I always know what phase of the moon we're in

[extollingtheeveryday]

Marge Piercy // "New Year for the Trees"

[hebrewbyinbal]

The last month in the Jewish / Hebrew calendar is /e-'lool/. It visits us in Aug-Sep, right before the holidays of /teesh-'rey/ marking the new Hebrew year.

[thejewitches]

Welcome to Cheshvan ✨🌑

This is one of the most negative months of the year, categorized by the element of water.

Think of the enormity of crashing waves, white created rushing rivers, and even the darkest depths of the sea.

We know the majesty and the awe of the element.

[torais-life]

Happy Tu BiShvat and Mazal Tov to all the trees that H' gave us! 🤗❤️🌳🫒🍇

[neta-ilan]

So, I’m getting my 5783 calendar set up because the first page is September, and it occurred to me -- we have so many holidays besides just Rosh Hashanah that are some kind of new year thing, implicitly or explicitly, historically or contemporarily, right?  And like, I have a lot of thoughts about how having a bunch of different starts to different ways of interpreting or applying the year encourages a cyclical view of time I’ve often seen associated (quite rightly) with Jewish culture.

But also, I hadn’t considered before just now that Simchat Torah is kind of a new year’s for the Torah.  

[girlactionfigure]

Good Month!

[bubblefemmejewitchery]

three weeks stuff from dori midnight

[numbersbythebook]

Pentecost & Marriage

written by Will Schumacher

God is said to have married Israel at Sinai. He entered a marriage covenant with them. This is said to have occurred on what we call Pentecost.

Pentecost is the 50th day. I did a couple posts awhile back on the number 50 and it seems tied to the covenant if you care to search for them.

Pentecost is also called the Feast of Weeks. Strong’s H7620 =”weeks” and literally means “seven” or a “period of seven”. It is from the counting of 7 periods of 7. You could literally call Pentecost the Feast of Sevens.

Exodus 34:22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.

Strong’s H7620 =”weeks” or “sevens” is used for the first time with a marriage covenant also:

Genesis 29:27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.

Genesis 29:27 is verse 823. 823 is the 144th prime. The number 144 is a completion number and is used in the book of Revelation referring to the completed bride- the 144,000 sealed, the 144,000 firstfruit virgins who have been redeemed, and the 144 cubit wall of New Jerusalem the bride.

Strong’s G823 is used one time with the resurrected bride:

1 Corinthians 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

Exodus 34:22 -the first mention of the feast of weeks or sevens - is verse 2519.

The first verse in the Bible with a gematria of 2519 is about a type of the Holy Spirit being sent forth to secure a bride for the father’s son:

Genesis 24:4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.

Verse 2519 from the end of the Bible is about the communion cup of wine and bread. Communion comes from the Passover meal Jesus shared with His disciples before His death. The cup He drank after dinner with His disciples is the 3rd cup of Passover called the cup of redemption. When a jewish man wanted to marry a jewish woman, he came to her house with a contract that spelled out each of their responsibilities - the Bible in our case - and if she consented they drank a cup of wine to seal the marriage. This cup that Jesus drank with His disciples sealed the marriage and the cup we drink is a remembrance of that marriage covenant sealed:

1 Corinthians 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

Another interesting tidbit, Exodus 34:22 and Exodus 23:16 - first mention of what we call Pentecost in the Bible - refer to Pentecost as the Feast of Firstfruits:

Exodus 23:16 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.

Exodus 34:22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.

Strong’s H1061 = Firstfruits.

Strong’s G1061 = to give in marriage

Pretty incredible that God entered into a marriage covenant with Israel on Pentecost and many numbers associated with Pentecost point to marriage. It is an incredible testimony to the Bible that it was written over 1500+ years and then 1500+ years later it was broken up into chapter and verses and given universally accepted Strong’s numbers and God oversaw it all and placed His truth within those numbers. A testimony to the majesty of the Father.

One last item numerically on Pentecost. God created the universe and specifically the sun and moon mathematically. He gave the Jewish people a calendar of days based on the moon and sun. A typical calendar cycle is 19 years with 12 years of 354 days and 7 years of 384 days. A total of 6936 days then would be a standard cycle - (12 x 354) + (7 x 384) = 6936

It is thought that there are 7000 years based on the bible. Year 7001 is Eternity. If you were to use the God given calendar of days and change it over into a calendar of years, year 1 would be called Nisan 1 and year 355 would then be called Nisan 1 again so on and so forth.

Year 6937 would be called Nisan 1 again. 64 years later is year 7001 or what we think is Eternity. Year 7001 is the 65th year and the 65th day of each year beginning on Nisan 1 is Sivan 6, Pentecost. It is too perfect to not think God is keeping track of years just as He gave His people a calendar of days.

[dejahisashmom]

Yazidism - World History Encyclopedia

https://www.worldhistory.org/Yazidism/

[theygender]

The more I learn about judaism the more I wonder where tf christianity got all its bad shit. Why is divorce a sin in christianity when judaism has recognized the right to divorce for nearly a millennia and has codified religious laws for it. Why does christianity consider sex to be dirty (to the point where puritans considered it a sin to enjoy having sex with your own spouse) when in judaism it's considered holy and it's a literal mitzvah to have sex with your spouse on the sabbath. Why does christianity consider it a sign that you're faithless if you question your religion when in judaism that's considered an essential part to developing your faith. I'm probably stating the obvious here but I still can't get over the fact that there's no historical basis to any of this shit before christianity started, it's like christians just said "hey guys what if we took the torah and built a new religion around it but this time it was actively hostile to human life"

[garlic-and-cloves]

I really could not care less about the Gregorian calendar or it's new year. Today is the 20th of Tevet, in the year 5784 in the Hebrew calender my people have used for thousands of years

[yyudit]

Hey everyone! I'm Yehudit, a Jewish lesbian from TX! I just added this 2023 Jewish Diasporic calendar to my Etsy - it's a digital file (both pdf and PNG) and on sale right now!

It has no national, secular or Christian holidays; All Hebrew is transliterated to English; includes major and minor holidays and Torah portions. The art work on each is a passage or two from a Torah reading of that month. (My understanding is that this is permissible, as I've shortened/replaced all names on G-d - i.e. "Elokim", etc. But if you need further accommodations I will do so for free!)

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