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5768 Calendar

If you wish to convert a Civil Date to a Hebrew Date or Vice Versa please go to this site.
*NOTE: Holidays begin the night before date given*
*Weekly Schedule of Torah Readings*

Adobe PDF Reader Printable calendars (5768 (2007-2008) Monthly Calendar or Year of 2008)

The Jewish calendar, like the Chinese calendar and Islamic calendar, is a lunisolar calendar. This means that the Jewish calendar is a combination of a solar calendar and a lunar calendar. The Jewish calendar attempts to have the year coincide with the solar calendar and its months coincide with the lunar calendar. Since the twelve months of the Jewish calendar are about eleven days short of a 365-day year, a leap month is added to the calendar on a 19-year cycle developed by Hillel II in the fourth century. The current cycle began in 5758 (1997-1998). An extra month is added on the third, sixth, eighth, eleventh, fourteenth, seventeenth, and nineteenth years during this cycle. (This is why one will see Adar I and Adar II on some calendars).

The year is calculated as the number of years since creation (5768 = September 2007 - October 2008) The year was calculated by adding up the ages of people in the Tanach back to the time of creation. However, this does not necessarily mean that the universe has existed for only 5768 years as we understand years. An ordinary Jewish calendar year has between 353 and 355 days and a leap year has between 383 and 385 days. Each month begins on Rosh Chodesh (new moon).

5768 (2008) Omer Calendar

1 - April 21
2 - April 22
3 - April 23
4 - April 24
5 - April 25
6 - April 26
7 - April 27
8 - April 28
9 - April 29
10 - April 30
11 - May 1
12 - May 2
13 - May 3
14 - May 4
15 - May 5
16 - May 6
17 - May 7
18 - May 8
19 - May 9
20 - May 10
21 - May 11
22 - May 12
23 - May 13
24 - May 14
25 - May 15
26 - May 16
27 - May 17
28 - May 18
29 - May 19
30 - May 20
31 - May 21
32 - May 22
33 - May 23
34 - May 24
35 - May 25
36 - May 26
37 - May 27
38 - May 28
39 - May 29
40 - May 30
41 - May 31
42 - June 1
43 - June 2
44 - June 3
45 - June 4
46 - June 5
47 - June 6
48 - June 7
49 - June 8



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1 Parsha Ki Tavo
8 Parsha Nitzavim-Veyelekh
13 Rosh Hashanah
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15 Parsha Ha'Azinu
16 Tzom Gedaliah
22 Yom Kippur
27-30 Sukkot
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13 Parsha Noach
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27 Vayera
       
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8 Parsha Miketz
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15 Parsha Vayigash
19 Asarah B'Tevet
22 Parsha Vayechi
29 Parsha Shemot
       
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12 Parsha Bo
19 Parsha B'Shalach
22 Tu B’Shevat
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9 Parsha Terumah
16 Parsha Tetzaveh
23 Parsha Ki Tisa
       
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7 Rosh Chodesh Adar II
8 Parsha Pekudei
15 Parsha Vayikra
20 Taanit Esther
21 Purim
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29 Parsha Shemini
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6 Rosh Chodesh Nisan
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19 Parsha Acharey Mot
20-27 Pesach
       
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1 Yom shoah
3 Parsha Kedoshim
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7 Yom HaZikaron
8 Yom Ha'Atzmaut
10 Parsha Emor
17 Parsha B'har
23 Lag B'Omer
24 Parsha B'chukotai
31 Parsha Bamidbar
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4 Rosh Chodesh Sivan
7 Parsha Naso
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2 Parsha Masey
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16 Parsha Va'et'hanan
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