The Jewish calendar, which is also referred to as the Hebrew calendar , is used for Jewish religious data. Unlike the Gregorian calendar, it is a calendar used mostly by the Western world in several ways. The Jewish calendar begins at the time of creation rather than the birth of Jesus and has 12 months in his regular year and another month, not only an extra day in his jump year. According to the Jewish calendar, the days start at sunset and the New Year occurs in the seventh, not the first month of the year.
Here is a table of Jewish months and their corresponding Gregorian months:
number
name
length (days)
Gregorian equivalent
1
nissan
30
mArch-Abril
2
IYAR
29
April-May
3
SIVAN
30
May-June
4
Tammuz
29
June-July
5
av
30
July-August
6
elul
29
August-September
7
tiathri
30
September-October
8
Cheshvan
29 or 30
October-November
9
kislev
29 or 30
November-December
10
Tevet
29
11
Shevat
30
January -nor
12 (only in Leap Years)
Adar
30
February-March
12 (13 in jump years)
Adar (ADAr II in Leap Years)
29
February-March
The first thing you might notice is that the Jewish calendar sometimes has another month. For years with the next month, the Jewish calendar has been jumping years. They have regular years anywhere from 353 to 355 days, while jumping years have 383 to 385 days. Gregorian years normally have 365 days and 366 days in the jump year. The reason there are jumps is that the standardized days provided to the moon do not perfectly match the sun's year - the time that needs the Earth to turn around the sun. Since the Western calendar is based on the sun year, it can be addressed to the addition of another day to February approximately once every four years.
Because the Jewish calendar is a lunisolar, that is, it is that the months to rotate the moon around Earth and its years to rotate the Earth around the Sun, it must be added by a year by a year. The way this "once in a while" is intended is quite complex.
, unlike the Gregorian calendar, who occurs in the first month of the year, the Jewish calendar has Nissan as his first month of the year and tiath, the seventh month, as his New Year, also called Rosh Hashanah. Therefore, the year increases on this day, which usually decreases sometime at the end of September or early October according to the Gregorian calendar.
According to the Jewish calendar, the year is based on the number of years since creation, while the year, according to the Gregorian calendar, is based on the birth of Jesus. The creation was calculated according to various biblical passages about 3760 BC or BCE. For example, Sundown 22 September 2006 was the beginning of the Jewish year 5767. Am means Anno Mundi and means in the year. According to the Jewish calendar, the days begin at sunset, rather than at midnight as in the Gregorian system.
