(Judaism) the calendar used by the Jews; dates from 3761 BC (the assumed date of the Creation of the world); a lunar year of 354 days is adjusted to the solar year by periodic leap years.
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Examples for "Hebrew calendar "
1 A lot of the folks at Jerry's did still use the Hebrew calendar .
2 The second month in the Hebrew calendar began April 7.-Ed.
3 Hanukkah starts tomorrow night, I know, by the Hebrew calendar that my childhood had permanently installed in my head.
4 In February, Younesi announced that Jewish students officially no longer had to go to school on Saturdays, the sabbath day in the Hebrew calendar .
5 Mr Myburgh said the differences in what he had so far transcribed mostly lay in the Hebrew calendar dates, which hold varying weight and importance.
1 Public holidays are determined by the Jewish calendar .
2 It is the 5th of Iyar, 5708 according to the Jewish calendar .
3 The Israelis were observing the strictures of Yom Kippur, one of the most sacred days in the Jewish calendar .
4 He compiled a Jewish Calendar and wrote Discourses on the Ecclesiastical and Civil Polity of the Jews (1706).
5 Israeli intelligence failed to predict the outbreak of hostilities exactly 37 years ago, on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar .
6 The increases coincided with the Jewish High Holidays, the most holy days in the Jewish calendar , that culminated last Monday with Yom Kippur.
7 Early in our meeting Jonathan Safran Foer reminds me that our interview is taking place on Yom Kippur, the holiest day within the Jewish calendar .
8 This feast was one of the most important in the Jewish calendar , and its observance was held as a most sacred duty by all Hebrews.
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