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Years
The Jewish year starts on Rosh Hashanah, "the Head of the Year," the day when Adam and Eve were created. The number of any given year (at the time of the writing of this article, the year is 5767 (2007)), is the amount of years which have elapsed since ...
Jewish Calendar » About » Years
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Maintaining the Cosmic Balance
By Yerachmiel Tilles
Adar: the month especially "pregnant" with meaning.
Kabbalah Online » Holidays » New Moon » Maintaining the Cosmic Balance
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It's in Your Hands
- 3 Tishrei, 5749 · September 14, 1988
The lunar year is eleven days shorter than the solar year. Therefore, every two or three years, an additional month is added to the Jewish calendar, to bring the lunar and solar years back into alignment.
The Rebbe » Living Torah » Archive » Program One Hundred Seventy Nine » It's in Your Hands
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In a Jewish leap year, during which Adar do I observe Yahrtzeit?
By Eliezer Posner
Question: My mother passed away in the month of Adar of 5756 (1996). When do I observe the yahrtzeit on this year, a leap year that has two Adars? Answer: Most years on the Jewish calendar (almost two thirds of them) have only one Adar. On a leap year, ...
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How does the spring equinox relate to the timing of Passover?
By Menachem Posner
The Jewish calendar normally consists of twelve lunar months. A lunar month -- from the moment when the crescent new-moon appears until it disappears once again -- is roughly 29.5 days. Twelve lunar months equal 354 days; eleven days less than the solar ...
Jewish Holidays » Passover » Study & History » Questions & Answers » How does the spring equinox relate to the timing of Passover?
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Moses and the Leap Year
The Jubilee year reminds us to not accept converts indiscriminately.
The Jubilee year reminds us to not accept converts indiscriminately.
Kabbalah Online » Weekly Torah » Archives » Devarim - Deuteronomy » Va'etchanan » Mystical Classics » Moses and the Leap Year
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Sixty Days of Purim
By Yanki Tauber
Purim, as everyone knows, falls in the month of Adar. Actually, according to the Kabbalists, it's the other way around: Adar rises in Purim...
Spirituality » Short Insights » By Yanki Tauber » Sixty Days of Purim
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A Leap year – Combining Consistency and Change
Farbrengen, 6 Tishrei, 5744 • September 13, 1983
The solar year is longer than the lunar year. The seasons are determined by the movement of the sun. But the Jewish People set their months and festivals by the moon. Every few years, we add a thirteenth month to synchronize the two cycles.
The Rebbe » Living Torah » Archive » Program Twenty Three » A Leap year – Combining Consistency and Change
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Leap Year
This year is a shanah meuberet (lit., "a pregnant year") or a leap year on the Jewish calendar. The Jewish leap year, which occurs 7 times in a 19-year cycle, has 13 months instead of the regular year's 12. This is so that the lunar-based Jewish year ...
Jewish Calendar » Adar I » Adar I - 1 » Laws & Customs » Leap Year
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The Nineteen-Year Marriage
By Yanki Tauber
The confluence of solar and lunar time in the 19-year Jewish calendar cycle
Spirituality » Short Insights » By Yanki Tauber » The Nineteen-Year Marriage
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