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How is the Hebrew calendar different from the Western calendar?
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∙ 6y ago
The Hebrew calendar is a lunar and solar calendar, meaning its months follow the moon's cycle around the world, whereas the secular calendar is only a solar calendar which follows the sun.
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∙ 7y agoThe Jewish calendar consists of lunar months. It also keeps in step with the solar year, by adding a thirteenth lunar leap-month seven times every nineteen years.The Gregorian calendar, which sticks to the solar year, ignores the lunar months and does not attempt to keep in step with them.
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Is Passover always celebrated at the same time?
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1 week = 1 week on the Hebrew calendar. (The Hebrew week is the same length as the week on the Western calendar)
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It is based on the moon instead of the sun.
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How is the date of Hanukkah determined each year?
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Does the date of Yom Kippur change every year?
The date on the Hebrew calendar (10 Tishrei) stays the same, but being that the Hebrew calendar and the secular calendar run on different cycles, the English date will always slightly vary,
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What is the Rash Hashanah?
Rosh Hashanah is the New Year in the Hebrew calendar and the first of the ten Yamim Noraim or Days of Awe. It falls on the 1st day of the Hebrew month Tishrei, despite the fact that Tishrei is the seventh month of the calendar (the Hebrew calendar is considerably more complicated that the secular calendar), which is late summer/early autumn depending on the year (as the Hebrew calendar and secular calendars do not correspond, a Hebrew date will fall on different secular dates - and vice versa- each year).
