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I found it written somewhere that the eleven offerings brought on Rosh ḥodesh [the New Moon] correspond to the eleven extra days of the solar year over and above those of the…
Contributor:
Moses Isserles
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Lithuania)
Date:
1570
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This foldout calendar is a beautifully illuminated feature that appears in a sefer ‘evronot. Works of this genre were Jewish calendar handbooks for calculating the dates of religious holidays and…
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Artist Unknown
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Lublin, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lublin, Poland)
Date:
1552
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Its sign is זש״הIt is year 2 of the Sabbatical cycleyear 3 of the small lunar cycle 299year 9 of the large solar cycle 203year 1837 [sic] of the Destruction of the Temple, may it be built and…
Contributor:
Ezra Dangur
Places:
Baghdad, Ottoman Empire (Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1904
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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…
Contributor:
Ezra Dangur
Date:
1904