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Our calendar starts in the Spring in the month of Nissan. The Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, is in the seventh month, the month of Tishri; this is when the year is changes. The thought of different “new years” is not as bizarre as it seems initially. The American "new year" starts in January, when the school year starts in September. Many businesses start their new years, their fiscal year, in July. The Bible usually refers to months by number rather than by name.

The Months of the Jewish Calendar

Nissan lasts 30 days and is in March-April.
Iyar is 29 days and coincides with April-May.
Sivan, the third month, is 30 days long and falls in May-June.
Tammuz has 29 days and falls during June-July.
Av is exactly 30 days in the heat of the summer, July and August.
Elul lasts 29 days spanning August and September.
Tishri is 30 days in the Fall, September and October.
Cheshvan, the eighth month, is 29 or 30 days in October-November.
Kis lev is another variable month with 29 or 30 days and falls in November-December.
Tevet is precisely 29 days in the winter months of December-January.
Shevat has 30 days in the heart of the winter months of January-February.
Adar, the first, 29 or 30 days (in leap year) and coincides with February-March.
Adar II, the last month of the year, is 29 days and occurs during March-April.

Complex calculations involving the time of day of the full moon determine the length of Cheshvan and Kislev.

Link to Jewish Calendars

To put a Jewish calendar on your computer, you may download this shareware program at www.CalendarMaven.com. This program gives dates from 1600 through 2200 and includes weekly Torah readings, candle lighting times and much more.

To simply look up the date of a holiday, go to www.hebcal.com

Rosh Hashanah

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