Synopsis: We cited several sources for the Jewish calendar intercalating only the month of Adar to create a leap year. Both the Babylonian Talmud (Rosh Hashana 7a and Sanhedrin 12a) and the ...

What Haman did not know was that Moshe Rabbeinu was also born in the month of Adar, and that day, the Talmud relates, helped avert the evil decree.

On leap years, an extra month — Adar II — is added, and Purim is celebrated on the 14th day of that month. ... He landed on the 13th day of Adar, the 12th month of the year on the Hebrew calendar.

During leap years, an extra month — Adar II — is added, and Purim takes place on the 14th of Adar II. Leap years occur every few years in the Hebrew calendar.

This year, Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Adar, the final month of the Hebrew calendar, fell on the same day. Lent, as is commonly portrayed, is a season of self-flagellation, of doom and gloom.

Every year Jewish people from all over the world wear fancy dress to celebrate the beginning of the festival of Purim. The festival takes place on the 14th of the Hebrew month of Adar. This year ...

Gifts, costumes, groggers, and above all: hamantaschen. All of these items commemorate the jolly Jewish holiday Purim. Each year, it is celebrated on the 14th day of the Hebrew month “Adar ...

When the month of Adar comes, joy increases., That’s a quote from the Talmud, and the refrain of a song popular for Purim, the joyous Jewish holiday celebrated on the 14th of the Hebrew month of ...

Jewish people across the world will be celebrating the holiday Purim this week. Purim, celebrated every year on the 14th of the Hebrew month Adar, begins on the night of Thursday, March 13th and ...