Jewish calendar
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- noun
- /ˈdʒuːɪʃ ˈkælɪndər/
:
calendario judío
- The significant point, however, is that other institutions can choose with impunity to ignore a sacred day in the Jewish calendar.
Examples
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What were they doing wrong to cause multiple Arab countries to attack her on Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, in 1973?
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The Jewish calendar is based on the orbit of the Moon around Earth, but it keeps up with the solar calendar by adding an extra month, Adar 2, every four years.
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The Jewish calendar is out; you can work it out yourself if you read the Bible.
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Then I realized that because the Jewish calendar is based on the orbit of the Moon, people have seen the Moon in the gibbous phase for every Kol Nidre evening for thousands of years.
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Yom Kippur, which falls on a different date each year based on the Jewish calendar, arrives relatively early this year, making the change all the more noticeable.
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These differed from the familiar January-December cycle, as these publishers followed the Jewish calendar, which begins in the fall; it was not always easy for the periodicals staff to determine which issues had arrived.
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The move to winter time ahead of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement and holiest date on the Jewish calendar, has been standard practice for decades and enshrined in law since 2005.
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Even the extreme values were not very discordant, ranging from a minimum, for the creation of the earth, of 3761 B.C. in the Jewish calendar (still in use) to a maximum of just over 5500 B.C. for the Septuagint.
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The Jewish calendar is lunar, with each month beginning on the new moon.
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According to the Jewish calendar, the 10th day of the 7th month falls this year on October 22nd.
Synonyms
A calendar used by Jewish people that uses lunar months and adds leap months to match the seasons
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'Jewish' specifies the cultural/religious affiliation and 'calendar' names the calendrical system, so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes the calendar used in Judaism. This modifier+noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and involves no idiomatic or metaphorical shift, making it immediately understandable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Jewish calendar is an old system that counts years from when Jews believe the world was created and sets its months by the moon, adding extra months sometimes so the months match the sun and the seasons. So the Jewish calendar is the system Jews use to count years and decide when holidays happen.