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Tammuz (Hebrew: תַּמּוּז , Tammūz), or Tamuz, is the tenth month of the civil year and the fourth month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar, and the modern Assyrian calendar. It is a month of 29 days, which occurs on the Gregorian calendar around June–July.
Many different calendar systems have since adopted Tammuz to refer to a month in the summer season. In the Hebrew calendar, Tammuz is the tenth month of the civil year and the fourth month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar. It is a summer month of 29 days. Tammuz is also the name for the month of July in the Gregorian calendar ...
When the difference goes above 18 ⁄ 19 month this signifies a leap year, and the difference is reduced by one month. The Hebrew calendar assumes that a month is uniformly of the length of an average synodic month, taken as exactly 29 + 13753 ⁄ 25920 days (about 29.530594 days, which is less than half a second from the modern scientific ...
The fast of Tammuz, according to Rabbi Akiva's interpretation, is the fast mentioned in the Book of Zechariah as "the fast of the fourth [month]" (Zechariah 8:19). This refers to Tammuz, which is the fourth month of the Hebrew calendar. According to the Mishnah, [2] five calamities befell the Jewish people on this day:
During the sixth century BCE Babylonian captivity of the Jews, these month names were adopted into the Hebrew calendar. The first month of the civil calendar during the Ur III and Old Babylonian periods was Šekinku (Akk. Addaru), or the month of barley harvesting, and it aligned with the vernal equinox. However, during the intervening Nippur ...
The Three Weeks start on the seventeenth day of the Jewish month of Tammuz—the fast of the Seventeenth of Tammuz—and end on the ninth day of the Jewish month of Av—the fast of Tisha B'Av, which occurs exactly three weeks later.
3 Tammuz June 13, 2021 3 Tammuz: Chabad sect only 12-13 Tammuz June 22–23, 2021 12-13 Tammuz: Chabad sect only 17 Tammuz June 27, 2021 Seventeenth of Tammuz: Can be moved to avoid interfering with Shabbat. Public holiday in Israel. 17 Tammuz - 9 Av June 27-July 18, 2021 The Three Weeks: 29 Tammuz July 9, 2021 Jabotinsky Day: Public holiday in ...
Tammuz may refer to: Dumuzid, Babylonian and Sumerian god; Tammuz (Hebrew month), the 4th month of the Hebrew calendar; Tammuz (Babylonian calendar), a month in the Babylonian calendar; Tammuz 1 or Osirak, formerly a nuclear reactor in Iraq as part of Operation Opera