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Tishrei (/ ˈ t ɪ ʃ r eɪ /) or Tishri (/ ˈ t ɪ ʃ r iː /; Hebrew: תִּשְׁרֵי tīšrē or תִּשְׁרִי tīšrī; from Akkadian tašrītu "beginning", from šurrû "to begin") is the first month of the civil year (which starts on 1 Tishrei) and the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year (which starts on 1 Nisan) in ...
Tishri-years, often called the Jewish Civil Calendar, is an ancient calendar system used in Israel/Judea, and the Jewish diaspora. It is based on, and is a variation of, the Nisan-years , which is often called the Jewish Religious Calendar .
Shemini Atzeret (שְׁמִינִי עֲצֶרֶת —"Eighth [day] of Assembly") is a Jewish holiday.It is celebrated on the 22nd day of the Hebrew month of Tishrei, usually coinciding with late September or early October.
The 1st of Tishri is the new year for years, of the Shmita and Jubilee years, for planting and for vegetables. The 1st of Shevat is the new year for trees—so the school of Shammai, but the school of Hillel say: On the 15th thereof. [22] Two of these dates are especially prominent:
A man holding a shofar while saying selichot at the Western Wall during the Ten Days of Repentance. In Judaism, the Ten Days of Repentance (עֲשֶׂרֶת יְמֵי תְּשׁוּבָה , ʿǍseret yəmēy təšūvā) are the first ten days of the Hebrew month of Tishrei, beginning with the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah and ending with the conclusion of Yom Kippur.
The first day of Tishri occurs in either September or October of the Roman-based calendar that we use to this day. That Judeans in the first century BCE and the first century CE used a Tishri-based calendar for governmental affairs, which would include the reigns of Judean kings and tetrarchs, is made explicit by Josephus in Antiquities 1.81/1.3.3:
Shevat (Hebrew: שְׁבָט , Standard Šəvaṭ, Tiberian Šeḇāṭ; from Akkadian Šabātu) is the fifth month of the civil year starting in Tishre (or Tishri) and the eleventh month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar starting in Nisan. It is a month of 30 days.
This puts the final year of Philips tetrarchy in AD 32t, that is, the Judean civil year that began on Tishri 1 of AD 32 and ended the day before Tishri 1 of AD 33. He therefore considered that his 37-year tetrarchy began in AD 32t - 37 - 1 (no year zero) = 6t BC, that is, the year beginning in Tishri 6 BC.