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It is a month of 30 days. Tishrei usually occurs in September–October on the Gregorian calendar. In the Hebrew Bible the month is called Ethanim (Hebrew: אֵתָנִים – 1 Kings 8:2), or simply the seventh month. In the Babylonian calendar the month is known as Araḫ Tišritum, "Month of Beginning" (of the second half-year).
These extra months are added in seven years (3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17, and 19) out of a 19-year cycle, known as the Metonic cycle (See Leap months, below). The beginning of each Jewish lunar month is based on the appearance of the new moon.
Tishri-years, often called the Jewish Civil Calendar, is an ancient calendar system used in Israel/Judea, ... Tishri 1 is the first day of the seventh month. Although ...
Rosh Hashanah takes place on the first day of the Hebrew month Tishrei. In the Hebrew calendar, Tishrei is actually the seventh month of the year. Related: What to Say to Someone During Yom Kippur.
The Torah calls the day Yom HaKippurim (יוֹם הַכִּיפּוּרִים ), and decrees fasting ("affliction of the soul") and a strict prohibition of work on the tenth day of the seventh month, later known as Tishrei. [12] The laws of Yom Kippur are commanded by God to Moses in three passages in the Torah:
Rosh Hashanah commemorates the creation of Man. [16] In Jewish practice, the months are numbered starting with the spring month of Nisan, making Tishrei the seventh month; Rosh Hashanah, the first day of the new calendar year, is also actually the first day of the seventh month. [17]
In the year 2024, 1 Nisan will occur on 9 April. Counting from 1 Tishrei, the civil new year, it would be the seventh month (eighth, in leap year), but in contemporary Jewish culture, both months are viewed as the first and seventh simultaneously, and are referred to as one or the other depending on the specific religious aspects being discussed.
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