Questions tagged [leap-years]
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When was the first Jewish leap year?
What number year within the 19-year cycle was the year of Yetziyat Mitzrayim -- if that was the mechanism used in the midbar to keep Pesach in the Spring
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How does one write Hebrew dates in short?
I'm trying to write down some of my friends' Hebrew birthdates, and because there's a bunch of them, I'm doing it in short. So 8 Tishrei 5763 would convert to 1/8/63 or ח׳ א׳ תשס״ג. (I think; I'm not ...
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Declare a leap year due to coronavirus?
Today (23 March 2020) Israel's Supreme Court rejected a petition to declare this year a leap year so Pessah can be postponed for a month, and the seders don't have to occur during a lockdown (...
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Is there a limit to the number of consecutive leap years?
The Rambam in Hilchot Kiddush Hachodesh 4:5 (Thanks @DonielF) states that Sanhedrin was allowed to declare a leap year not just based on "seasonal alignment' (I.e. 16 Nissan should be after the spring ...
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Are anniversaries celebrated in Adar I or Adar II?
For those who celebrate anniversaries, or for calculating the end of Shanah Rishonah, if a couple gets married in Adar of a non-leap-year, when is the anniversary celebrated in a leap year? Is it in ...
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If Adar I is the "extra Adar", why does Parshat Tetzave line up with 7 Adar I, and not 7 Adar II?
According the Talmud and most sources, the extra month added during a Jewish leap year is the first month of Adar, and not the second one.
Why then, is Parshat Tetzave, which is supposed to coincide ...
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7 Adar, Tachanun and Leap Years
A followup to this question.
For those who do not say tachanun on the birth/death anniversary of Moshe Rabbeinu, how do they handle leap years? Do they not say tachanun on the seventh of both months ...
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"U'l'Kaparat Pesha" said during a leap year
During yesterday's Ben Hashmashot shiur, our Rav read a section from Otzar Hadinim (Eisenstein) (B"N, I'll insert the excerpt later, when I have access, or perhaps someone can edit it in.) that ...
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Why does Rashi quote Vayikra 23:39 as the source for leap years?
Why does Rashi quote Vayikra 23:39 as the source for Ibur Shana ("מכאן שנצטוו לעבר את השנים"), as opposed to Devarim 16:1 quoted by the Rambam in Hilchos Kiddush Hachodesh 1:1 ("והשנים שאנו מחשבין הם ...
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What is the biblical source for leap years? [duplicate]
The verse (Devarim 16:1) states - "Keep the month of spring, and make the Passover offering to the Lord, your God, for in the month of spring, the Lord, your God, brought you out of Egypt at night.").
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Nedarim 61 and multiple year neder
I'm a gentile and have studied Nedarim 61 a little bit recently. From what I've gathered so far, when someone makes a neder for "this year" or "a year", it means for the rest of the year, whether that ...
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"Early" leap years [duplicate]
Mishneh Torah, Sanctification of the New Month 4:2 (Sefaria English translation with my modification on the word "Aviv"):
עַל שְׁלֹשָׁה סִימָנִין מְעַבְּרִין אֶת הַשָּׁנָה. עַל הַתְּקוּפָה
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Trying to understand Mishnah Megilla 1:4
Mishnah Megillah 1:4 states:
קראו את המגילה באדר הראשון ונתעברה השנה, קורין אותה באדר השני. אין בין
אדר הראשון לאדר השני אלא קריאת המגילה ומתנות לאביונים .
If the Megillah was read in first ...
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What is the halacha regarding Adar yahrtzeits?
IIRC, During a Judaic leap year, my father, a"h observed 2 Yahrtzeits for his father who died during Adar of a non-leap year. He lit the yahrtzeit candle and said Kaddish twice - once for the date in ...
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