![]() ![]() Uniqueness and idiosyncrasies of the Jewish calendar. That brings the average length of the year to 365.2425 days, which is very close to the actual number. Since 12 lunar months are, on average, 11 days shorter than the (Gregorian) civil year, the Islamic year shifts earlier in each civil year by about this amount. To get even closer to the actual number, every 100 years is not a leap year, but every 400 years is a leap year. Because Rosh Hashanah actually, per the Torah, occurs in the seventh month, “it makes Jews think about the By adding one extra day to every fourth year, we get an average of 365.25 days per year, which is fairly close to the actual number. When it’s a leap year that applies to both months of Adar,” Raskin said.īut even with 60 days of Adar madness, Raskin loves the Jewish New Year. “There’s a statement in the Talmud that says when Adar begins, we increase our joy. Some say it’s because Adar is considered the luckiest month in the Jewish year and others say it was due to the timing of the spring equinox. Months in the Islamic calendar alternate between 30 days and 29 days. Why Adar is the month that gets repeated as opposed to Nissan or Kislev or any of the months, isn’t as clear. Thus, the year has either 354 or 355 days. In 11 years of this cycle, Dhu al-Hijjah has 30 days, and in the other 19 years it has 29. As a result, the calendar uses an 11-year leap year cycle. (Someone born on 30 Adar I would celebrate his birthday on 1 Nisan in a non-leap year because Adar in a non-leap year has only 29 days.) The calendar therefore drifts by days relative to the sun each Islamic year, and would require Islamic years to get back in synchronization. 1: 2: 3: 4: 5: 6: 7: 8: 9: 10: 11: 12: 13: 14: 15: 16: 17: 18: 19: 20: 21: 22: 23: 24: 25: 26: 27: 28: 29: 30: 31: jan: 1: 2: 3: 4: 5: 6: 7: 8: 9: 10: 11: 12: 13: 14. The same generally goes for other anniversaries like yahrzeits. The Hijri calendar is a 12-month lunar calendar, with an average duration of 29,530,589 days. People born during the month of Adar in a non-leap year would celebrate their birthdays in Adar II, while somebody born during either Adar in a leap year would celebrate in the regular Adar of a non-leap year. Like Purim, Purim Katan is celebrated on the 14th of the month, where Purim would fall if it weren’t a leap year. So separating them wouldn’t make sense in that kind of thinking.” Lunisolar calendars, such as the Islamic calendar, have months based on the phases of the Moon instead add a leap year or extra month. “There’s a connection between Purim and Pesach, two historically redemptive times that need to be close together. “Second Adar is the real Adar,” Rabbi Adam Raskin, of Congregation Har Shalom in Potomac, said. We are now entering Adar II - it actually began between March 7 and 8, whichalthough it comes second is considered to be “Adar proper” since it’s when Purim, on the 14th of the month, is celebrated. ![]() But since the month of Adar is repeated, you may ask, when should one celebrate Purim? Hence the easiest thing to do, reasoned the sages, is to tack on an extra month at the end of the calendar. “Adar is the last month of the Jewish year,” Rabbi Amy Sapowith, of Beth Chaverim Reform Congregation in Ashburn, Va., explained. We do not share data with third party vendors. Get Washington Jewish Week Digital Magazine by email and never miss our top stories ![]()
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