Every month is either 29 or 30 days long, beginning (and ending) on a special day known as Rosh Chodesh (“The Head of the Month”). The months were once declared by a beit din (rabbinical court) after the new moon had been sighted, but now follow a predetermined calendar.

Listed below are various resources that help you better understand the Hebrew months, what to expect, how to position your heart for what’s ahead, and the feasts and festivals that fall within the months. The list is according to the civil calendar, which begins in …

Pronounced: KHESH-vahn, Origin: Hebrew, Jewish month usually coinciding with October-November.

The Jewish year is consistent of twelve months. The Hebrew calendar is a lunar calendar meaning that the months are calculated based on the appearance and movement of the moon. The Hebrew word for month is חודש (Khodesh) contains the root חד”ש meaning new.

The Hebrew calendar (Hebrew: הַלּוּחַ הָעִבְרִי ‎), also called the Jewish calendar, is a lunisolar calendar used today for Jewish religious observance and as an official calendar of Israel.

The Hebrew Calendar is a lunisolar calendar, meaning that months are based on lunar months, but years are based on solar years. The calendar year features twelve lunar months of twenty-nine or thirty days, with an intercalary lunar month added periodically to synchronize the twelve lunar cycles with the longer solar year.

The months of the Hebrew year are: Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, Elul, Tishrei, Chesvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, and Adar. Each month holds unique spiritual significance and areas ripe for healing. Here is a quick overview of the focus for each month.

Definition: Month Meaning: a lunation, month. Word Origin: From an unused root meaning to be yellow; a month. Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries: - G3376 - μήν (mēn), meaning "month" in Greek, used in the New Testament to denote a similar concept of time.

Learn about the Jewish calendar, its background and history, the numbering of Jewish years, the months of the Jewish year and the days of the Jewish week.

This page shows a chart of the Hebrew calendar months with their Gregorian calendar equivalents.