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How Do I Know If it's a Hebrew Leap Year?
How can I tell if a given year is a Hebrew Leap Year? The simpler, the better.
[Assuming we are using a fixed calendar, not like the "olden days".]
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How do I write in Hebrew for a Ketbuah, “On the first day of the week, the thirtieth day of Adar I in the year fifty-seven seventy one”
Question was asked by Stephen Spiegel, I'm just posting it here as its own question instead of a comment.
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When Adar Begins we increase our Joy-משנכנס אדר מרבים בשמחה
משנכנס אדר מרבים בשמחה- When Adar Begins we increase our Joy (I know it is not in Shulchan Aruch or the Rambam) What is the practical application of it?
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What Hebrew date requires the most space to spell out in a Ketubah? [closed]
What Hebrew date requires the most space to spell out in a Ketubah?
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In which month is it impossible to become Bas Mitzva? [closed]
In which month is it impossible to become Bas Mitzva?
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Nittle Nacht Meaning
What is Nittle Nacht?
What does the name mean?
What is its significance?
Which Halachic authorities speak about it, and what do they say?
What is the actual date for it?
How is it effected this ...
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History of 16 Teveis
**Looking for answers as to what happened in Jewish history on this date. It can include both positive and negative occurrences. It can also include birthdays or Yarzheits of well known personalities ...
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History of 15 Teveis
**Looking for answers as to what happened in Jewish history on this date. It can include both positive and negative occurrences. It can also include birthdays or Yarzheits of well known personalities ...
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Eclipse of the moon, bad sign for the Jews
Tonight, December 20, 2010, there will be a full lunar eclipse visible from North America and many other areas. I recall there is a Gemara that says that a lunar eclipse is a bad omen for the Jews as ...
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History of 14 Teveis
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History of 13 Teveis
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History of 12 Teveis
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History of 11 Teveis
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History of 10 Teveis
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History of 9 Teveis
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History of 8 Teveis
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History of 7 Teveis
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History of 6 Teveis
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Tuesday and Friday nights
Bavli P'sachim 112:2 has a story of an angel of destruction who would work daily (see Rashash) until asked to quit. When she requested some time to work, the rabbi she was talking with allowed her ...
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History of 5 Teveis
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**Looking for answers as to what happened in Jewish history on this date. It can include both positive and negative occurrences. It can also include birthdays or Yarzheits of well known ...
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On which day in Teveis did this happen?
In Megilas Esther 2:16 it mentions that Esther was taken in Teveis to Achasverosh's palace. Does anyone know on which day of the month this happened?
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History of 4 Teveis
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History of 3 Teveis
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History of 2 Teveis
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What is the shortest interval during which we read publicly from each of the five Chumashim?
What is the shortest interval during which we read publicly from each of the five Chumashim?
There is actually a practical issue involved here as well. The halachah is that if a community has a Sefer ...
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9 Days of Chanukah?
All Yomim Tovim we celebrate in Chutz Laretz an extra day because of A safek, why do we not do the same for Chanukah?
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Parashas Shavua calculation
I'm writing a site where the user would be able to see the calendar with jewish-civil translation of dates, and also which parasas shavua falls on which Shabbos.
I'd like to know what is the formula ...
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Hours, minutes, and chalakim
On Shabbat preceding Rosh Chodesh, the time of the molad is generally announced in units of hours, minutes, and chalakim. However, minutes are not a traditional Jewish unit of time; rather hours are ...
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Moshe Rabeinu's Yarzheit
It is common knowledge that Moshe Rabeinu was Niftar on 7 Adar. Was it a plain year with 1 Adar or a leap year with 2 Adars? If it was a leap year on what Adar was he Niftar?
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“Veadar” as the name of the extra month in leap years?
In older books and other publications that describe the Jewish calendar, it's quite common to see the extra leap month referred to as "Veadar." (One example is here.)
But I have yet to hear that ...
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Cheshvan or MarCheshvan?
The month of Cheshvan is called by many MarCheshvan. Are both correct or which one is more correct?
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Jewish Leap Year
Why when we add an additional month to the year do we only add it in Adar? Why not have a second Chesvon or a second Shevat, etc.?
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Haftarah for yahrtzeit
If one's yahrtzeit falls on a day when there is a haftarah, there is a discussion about whether it's a bigger merit for the deceased to recite the haftarah on that day or before the day of the ...
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More info on tzerufei shemos (permutations of G-d's name) vis-a-vis months of the year?
I've seen some siddurim -- I think the Artscroll all-Hebrew Nusach Sefard -- that list one permutation of the name YKVK for each of the twelve months, and that one should have appropriate kavana when ...
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Selichos start: Ashkinazim vs. Sefardim
Why do Sefardim start saying Sleichos earlier than Ashkinazim?
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Why is my molad-time chart off by a day?
The HaMaor Mikraos Gedolos chumash has a chart of molad (forecasted first visibility of the new moon in Jerusalem, based on averages observable to the naked eye, assuming Jerusalem local time; am I ...
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Is the Yovel every 49 or 50 years?
When is Yovel? Is it in the 49th year of the shmita cycle, or the 50th? And if it is in the 50th, when is the next shmita, in the 56th or 57th year? What is the practice in modern day Israel?
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Two days of Yom Tov outside of Israel
Why do we continue to keep two days of Yom Tov outside of Israel? The reason for two days was revelant during the temple era as we needed two witnesses to see the new moon. But today, with no Temple ...
