Jewish Months and Rosh Chodesh: Learning the Calendar From the Moon

Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Jewish calendar is easiest to misunderstand if you meet it only through holiday dates on a wall calendar. Passover moves. Rosh Hashanah arrives in the fall but belongs to a year that does not begin in January. Hanukkah may feel early one year and late another. A yahrzeit follows a date that may not match the civil date. Someone mentions Rosh Chodesh, and suddenly the moon is involved.

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Jewish Months and Rosh Chodesh: Learning the Calendar From the Moon