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The Hebrew calendar (Hebrew: הַלּוּחַ הָעִבְרִי ), 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.
A Hebrew birthday (also known as a Jewish birthday) is the date on which a person is born according to the Hebrew calendar. This is important for Jews , particularly when calculating the correct date for day of birth, day of death, a bar mitzva or a bat mitzva .
This calendar is used within Jewish communities for religious purposes and is one of two official calendars in Israel. In the Hebrew calendar, the day begins at sunset. The calendar's epoch, corresponding to the calculated date of the world's creation, is equivalent to sunset on the Julian proleptic calendar date 6 October 3761 BCE. [2]
offset is the time offset from UTC/GMT in hours; see map below. Non-integer offsets are valid. Template cannot accommodate DST when using offset. When offset is present, any time zone abbreviation is ignored. erev is an optional parameter to force the Hebrew calendar date to advance at 18:00 (6:00 pm) local time. See below.
Date on Hebrew calendar Gregorian date Hebrew Name Notes 1-2 Tishrei: September 19–20, 2020 Rosh Hashanah: Public holiday in Israel: 1-10 Tishrei September 19–28, 2020 Ten Days of Repentance: 3 Tishrei September 21, 2020 Fast of Gedalia: Public holiday in Israel, changes to Tishrei 4 when Tishrei 3 is Shabbat. Starts at dawn. Movable ...
1.2 With time zone abbreviation. 1.3 With time offset. 1.4 erev parameter: Hebrew dates begin the evening before. 2 Supported time zones. 3 Time zone map. 4 Related ...
The result is that all dates from 1 Nisan through 29 (or 30) Cheshvan can each fall on one of four days of the week. Dates during Kislev can fall on any of six days of the week; during Tevet and Shevat, five days; and dates during Adar (or Adar I and II, in leap years) can each fall on one of four days of the week.
Molad (מולד, plural Moladot, מולדות) is a Hebrew word meaning "birth" that also generically refers to the time at which the New Moon is "born". The word is ambiguous, however, because depending on the context, it could refer to the actual or mean astronomical lunar conjunction (calculated by a specified method, for a specified time zone), or the molad of the traditional Hebrew ...