Calendar for the Year 5665, an Intercalated Year

Ezra Dangur

1904

Page of printed Hebrew text with decorative border.

The Hebrew calendar uses a system of intercalation, adding an additional month to the calendar year to synchronize the regular twelve-month calendar with the moon, sun, and seasons. The Hebrew calendar has seven leap years with intercalated months in each nineteen-year cycle. This is the title page of a calendar, published in Baghdad by the press of Ezra Dangur, which describes the Hebrew year 5665, indicating its length and adjustments for weekly Torah readings as well as how it correlates to other calendar systems.

Credits

Ezra Dangur, Taḥel shanah u-virkhotehah: Seder ‘ibur 1904/05 meuberet (Baghdad: Ezra Dangur, 1904).

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 7.

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Creator Bio

Ezra Dangur

1848–1930

Ezra Dangur was born Ezra Sasson in Baghdad into a religiously observant family who sent him to study in ʿAbd Allāh Somekh’s yeshiva. Dangur became a shohet and scribe, performing religious community functions after his morning studies. In 1894, he left Iraq to serve as the chief rabbi of Rangoon (Burma), but he had to return to Baghdad the following year due to ill health. In 1904, he founded a press that published the annual Seder ha-‘ibbur prayer books and a variety of other Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, and Arabic books. From 1923 to 1928, he served as hakham bashi (chief rabbi) of Baghdad. Dangur produced a number of manuscripts on halakhah, a Bible with commentaries in Arabic translation, and sermons.

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