Hebrew calendar
Lunisolar Jewish system
The Hebrew calendar is the traditional Jewish calendar, a lunisolar system that tracks both moon phases and solar years.
Months begin at the new moon, while leap months keep seasons aligned with the solar year.
It dates years from creation (anno mundi), placing the current era around 5784.
Jewish holidays follow this calendar: Passover falls on 15 Nisan in the Hebrew calendar.
Involving both celestial cycles
- NisanHebrew calendar's first month
- Metonic cycleNineteen-year lunisolar period
- intercalationInsertion between existing elements
- leap yearCalendar with added day
Jewish calendar's start
- Yom KippurAnnual Jewish atonement observance
- PassoverFestival of liberation
- SukkotJewish autumn harvest commemoration
- ShavuotFestival marking Torah's giving
Hanukkah · Purim · Tisha B'Av · Selichot · High Holy Days
Jewish day of rest
- bar mitzvahJewish adulthood ceremony
- bat mitzvahFemale Jewish adulthood rite
- yahrzeitAnnual death anniversary observance
- kiddushSabbath wine benediction
havdalah · candle lighting · Jubilee · Sanhedrin · anniversary · parsha · mourning periods · wedding dates
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- ancient IsraelBiblical Hebrew civilization
- rabbinicOf Jewish religious scholars
- biblicalOf sacred texts
- agriculturalOf farming practices
seasonal · exile · Second Temple · priestly · halacha
lunisolar
Involving both celestial cycles
- NisanHebrew calendar's first month
- Metonic cycleNineteen-year lunisolar period
- intercalationInsertion between existing elements
Rosh Hashanah
Jewish calendar's start
- Yom KippurAnnual Jewish atonement observance
- PassoverFestival of liberation
- SukkotJewish autumn harvest commemoration
Shavuot · Hanukkah · Purim · Tisha B'Av · Selichot · High Holy Days
Shabbat
Jewish day of rest
- bar mitzvahJewish adulthood ceremony
- bat mitzvahFemale Jewish adulthood rite
- yahrzeitAnnual death anniversary observance
kiddush · havdalah · candle lighting · Jubilee · Sanhedrin · anniversary · parsha · mourning periods · wedding dates
Babylonian
Of ancient Mesopotamian empire
- ancient IsraelBiblical Hebrew civilization
- rabbinicOf Jewish religious scholars
- biblicalOf sacred texts
agricultural · seasonal · exile · Second Temple · priestly · halacha
- timekeepingclock, watch, watches, clocks, timer
- calendardate, day, week, month, year
- calendarsalmanac, almanacs, planners, diaries, datebooks
- Judaicamenorah, Torah scroll, Talmud, Torah study, mezuzah
- lunar cyclesfull moon, new moon, crescent moon, half moon, waxing crescent
- Hanukkahmenorah, dreidel, latkes, gelt, shamash
Hebrew calendarGregorian calendar
Current global date system
Julian calendar · Islamic calendar · solar calendar · Chinese calendar · Hindu calendar
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