Calendars
help mark time, but not everyone follows the same calendar. The Jewish
luni-solar calendar dates time differently than the western Gregorian calendar.
Here are free printable lunisolar Jewish calendars and calendar converter
tools. Calendars are marked with Jewish holy days. You can print monthly
calendars for each month of the Jewish year. You can also print calendars
cross-referenced with the western Gregorian calendar.
For
free printable Jewish calendars, visit Printable Jewish Calendar. The 12 Jewish months of the calendar include:
Nissan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, Elul, Tishri, Cheshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat,
Adar I (found only in leap years) and Adar. These months are listed in the
order they occur within the Jewish calendar year. Their western equivalents are
March-April: Nissan, April-May: Iyan, May-June: Tammuz, etc. Free printable
Jewish calendars are dated for 5776, the current year in the Jewish calendar.
Get equivalent free printable western calendars for 2016 and updated ones as
each new year arrives. Free printable Jewish calendars include Hebrew holidays.
You can print lunisolar Jewish calendars, with or without a calendar converter
of western dates.
The
Jewish calendar begins with Pesach or Passover in Nissan, but the Jewish New
Year, Rosh Hashanah takes place in Tishri (the seventh month which is
equivalent to September-October in the western calendar). This is when the new
year is numbered. It is difficult to make direct comparison between western
Gregorian and Jewish calendars as the two calendars differ by orientation. The
older Julian calendar which Orthodox Christians use and the later Gregorian
calendar (western calendar now used) are solar calendars. They are based upon
the earth's path around the sun. The Jewish calendar is a lunar calendar. It is
also called lunisolar calendar because the Hebrew calendar reconciles the
phases or cycles of the moon with the earth's orbit around the sun. See
Abdicate for details on how the Jewish and Gregorian (western) calendars
coincide and mark time. This site also has a free calendar converter tool to convert calendars written in English or
Hebrew.
Jew
FAQ or Judaism 101 explains the Hebrew calendar on several levels, from basic to more
advanced. Sources agree that the Hebrew calendar has the least degree of error
of all the calendars. Formulab has a free calendar converter tool with converts date in the Western
Gregorian calendar to dates in Jewish calendars and from the lunisolar Hebrew
calendar to Gregorian solar calendar. Use these free printable calendars and
calendar converter tools in Hebrew school or in social studies classes for
multicultural lesson plans.
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