Almanac for the Year 5675
Eliezer Ya‘akov Podhorzer
1914
This calendar, Almanac for the Year 5675: Souvenir der Hochschule Bar Iochai und Altenhaus in Miron, was probably a fundraising giveaway for an old-age home and for the high school that Eliezer Ya’akov Podhorzer established in Meron, a village near Safed. It was printed in Safed in Yiddish, Hebrew, French, and German.
The Molad is Wednesday evening, 10 minutes and 9 halakim on 6 [6:10.9 pm]1
Iyar 5675—April 1915—Taurus—(29 days)
| [Hebrew Date] | [Day of the week] | [Christian Date] | [Islamic Date] | ||
| 1st | Thursday | Second day of Rosh Ḥodesh Today is 16 days, which is 2 weeks and 2 days of the omer2 |
15 | 2 | For Mohammedans: Month of Jumada II 1333 [Hijri Year] |
| 2nd | Friday | Today is 17 days, which is 2 weeks and 3 days of the omer | 15 | 3 | COMMEMORATION 1st Passed away: R. [Jacob] Berab head of the court in the holy city of Safed, may it be rebuilt and established speedily in our days, and R. Ḥayim Vital. 2nd R. Jacob Emden, z"l passed away. On that day King Solomon began building the Temple in the year 2928. 7th Consecration of the walls of Jerusalem by Nehemiah. 15th The great Maharam of Lublin passed away in the year 5376. 18th The ḥillula [memorial festivity] of R. Shimon bar Yoḥai, may his honor defend us. On that day our master R. Moses Isserles passed away in the year 5333.
29th Samuel the Prophet passed away, may he rest in peace. |
| 3nd | Shabbes | [Torah reading:] Tazria and Metzora One blesses the Monday-Thursday-Monday Torah readings (of Metzora) Today is 18 days, which is 2 weeks and 4 days of the omer |
17 | 4 [ . . . ] | |
| 13th | Tuesday | Today is 28 days, which is 4 weeks of the omer | 27 | 14 | |
| 14th | Wednesday | Second Passover Today is 29 days, which is 4 weeks and 1 day of the omer One sanctifies the new moon up until Thursday night (recites Kiddush levanah)3 |
28 | 15 | |
| 15th | Thursday | Today is 30 days, which is 4 weeks and 2 days of the omer | 29 | 16 | |
| 16th | Friday | Today is 31 days, which is 4 weeks and 3 days of the omer | 30 | 17 | |
| 17th | Shabbes | [Torah reading:] Emor Today is 32 days, which is 4 weeks and 4 days of the omer Mai [May begins] |
1 | 18 | |
| 18th | Sunday | Today is 33 days, which is 4 weeks and 5 days of the omer [Lag b’Omer] No taḤanun |
2 | 19 | |
| 19th | Monday | Today is 34 days, which is 4 weeks and 6 days of the omer | 3 | 20 [ . . . ] | |
| 29th | Thursday | The eve of Rosh Ḥodesh; Yom Kippur Katan; no Taḥanun prayer at Minḥah Today is 44 days, which is 6 weeks and 2 days of the omer |
13 | 30 | |
| Address of: Rabbi L. J. Podhorzer, Safed (Palestine) | |||||
The Molad is Friday morning 54 minutes and 10 ḥalakim [6:54.10 am]
Sivan 5675—May 1915—Gemini—(30 days)
| 1st | Friday | Rosh Ḥodesh. No Taḥanun until ’Isru ḥag (day after Shavuot) passes Today is 45 days, which is 6 weeks and 3 days of the omer |
14 | 11 | For Mohammedan: Month of Rajab 1333 [Hijri Year] |
| 2nd | Shabbes | [Torah reading:] Ba-midbar Chapter 6 [of Pirke avot is studied] Today is 46 days, which is 6 weeks and 4 days of the omer |
15 | 2 | COMMEMORATION 6th King David, of blessed memory, passed away. 7th The Ba‘al Shem Tov z"l passed away. 15th Birthday of Judah ben Jacob our Father, may he rest in peace, and death. 16th [King] John Hyrcanus expelled the inhabitants of Beit Shean and the Jezreel Valley and annexed [these territories] to the Land of Israel. 20th A public fast was instituted in the Jewish communities in memory of the massacres of Jews in 5408–09 [1648/9] (Gzeyres Ta"Ḥ VeTa"T). 25th R. Shimon ben Gamliel and R. Hanina, the Vice High-Priest, were executed. 27th R. Hanina ben Teradion was wrapped in a Torah scroll and burned alive. |
| 3rd | Sunday | Today is 47 days, which is 6 weeks and 5 days of the omer | 16 | 3 | |
| 4th | Monday | Today is 48 days which is 6 weeks and 6 days of the omer | 17 | 4 | |
| 5th | Tuesday | Eve of Shavuot. Today is 49 days, which is 7 weeks of the omer | 18 | 5 | |
| 6th | Wednesday | First day of Shavuot. Full Hallel is recited; read Book of Ruth; say Akdamot. | 19 | 6 | |
| 7th | Thursday | Second day of Shavuot. Full Hallel is recited, read “Kol bekhor,” Yizkor is enumerated, say Av ha-raḥamim. | 20 | 7 | |
| 8th | Friday | ’Isru ḥag. No Taḥanun but one recites Psalm 20. Fasting is prohibited—even for a groom on his wedding day. | 21 | 8 | |
| 9th | Shabbes | [Torah Reading:] Naso Chapter 1 [of Pirke avot is studied] |
22 | 9 [ . . . ] | |
| 15th | Friday | One sanctifies the new moon (recites Kiddush levanah) | 28 | 15 | |
| 16th | Shabbes | [Torah Reading:] Beha’alotkha Chapter 2 [of Pirke avot studied] |
29 | 16 | |
| 17th | Sunday | 30 | 17 | ||
| 18th | Monday | 31 | 18 | ||
| 19th | Tuesday | Juni [June begins] | 1 | 9 | |
| 20th | Wednesday | 2 | 10 [ . . . ] | ||
| 27th | Wednesday | 9 | 27 | ||
| 28th | Thursday | Yom Kippur mukdam [when Yom Kippur katan would fall on Shabbat] | 10 | 28 | |
| 29th | Friday | Rosh Ḥodesh eve | 11 | 29 | |
| 30th | Shabbes | [Torah Reading:] Koraḥ Chapter 4 [of Pirke avot studied] First day of Rosh Ḥodesh |
12 | 30 | |
| Address of: Rabbi L. J. Podhorzer, Safed (Palestine) | |||||
Notes
[Molad is the halakhic beginning (or birth) of the new moon. It is calculated in hours, minutes, and ḥalakim (3 1/3 seconds, based on 1/1080 parts to an hour).—Eds.]
[Omer is Hebrew for “sheaf” and refers to the time between the first barley offering in the Temple each year—on the second day of Passover—and the first wheat offering in the Temple fifty days later, on Shavuot, referred to as the period of the omer, when each day is ritually counted.—Eds.]
[Kiddush levanah, the sanctification of the new moon, is a blessing recited at night, in view of the moon, and before the full moon appears as it is waxing.—Eds.]
Credits
L. J. Podhorzer, Almanac for the Year 5675: Souvenir der hochschule Bar Iochai und Altenhaus in Miron Saffed (Palästina), ed. Rabbiner L. J. Podhorzer (Safed: Hagalil, 1914), n.p.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 7.
