The Hebrew Calendar

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The Hebrew or Jewish calendar is a lunisolar calendar. It has 355 days based on the lunar calendar with intercalary days during leap years to keep the special days in sync with the seasons, following the solar year. This way, Passover is always celebrated in the spring and Hanukkah in the winter. The beginning of the year is generally in or around September.

The calendar follows the biblical narrative and dates the current year to the beginning of creation. The year beginning in Sept 2022 is year 5783 A.M. (Anno Mundi, the year of the world). In the B.C./A.D. system, the beginning of creation would have been in year 3761 B.C.

Months

#	Hebrew Calendar (Lunisolar)	Gregorian Calendar (Solar)	Special Days
1	Nisan	March-April	Passover
2	Iyar	April-May	​Pesach Sheni Lag B'Omer
3	Sivan	May-June	Shavuot
4	Tammuz	June-July	Seventeenth of Tammuz
5	Av	July-August	​Tisha B'Av Tu B'Av
6	Elul	August-September
7	Tishrei	September-October	Rosh Hashanah (New Year) Yom Kippur Sukkot Shemini Atzeret Simchat Torah
8	Heshvan	October-November
9	Kislev	November-December	Hanukkah
10	Tevet	December-January	Tenth of Tevet
11	Shvat	January-February	Tu Bishvat
12	Adar (extra days in leap years)	February-March	Purim
# Days in Year	354	365

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