The Haab was a solar calendar with 365 days divided into 18 months of 20 days each additionally a 5-day month, and the ...

However, the earlier Julian calendar has persisted down to today and is still used by various groups (Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, etc.) to calculate the date of Easter. In the previous chapter ...

the destruction of each of the ancient Jewish Temples (the first, by the Babylonians, some four centuries earlier). On or ...

Throughout history, some of the world's most captivating battles have taken place in the air between two sides and the best ...

Jewish holidays take place in the unique context of the Jewish calendar, which, though mainly lunar ... the return of the exiles to the ancient homeland, and the renewal of Jewish sovereignty after ...

The Jewish people preserve to this day the calendar of a land from which they ... wish to restore the scattered hosts of Jewry to their ancient land. There can be little doubt that this seed ...

Dr Jacobus said: “This ancient tract can be still used a functioning lunar zodiac calendar , which was a precursor to the Jewish calendar of today. “The calendar is followed by an omen text, which ...

For as long as humans have been humans, we have traveled the world in search of spiritual understanding. And to get closer to our gods. Today, religion is more threatened than ever, yet sacred ...

Nine months since the worst pogrom in Jewish history since the Holocaust ... and I wonder what the our beloved rav and our ...

In the Jewish calendar, Passover begins on the 15th day ... which retells the salvation and redemption of the ancient Israelites. Where can you celebrate Passover in Arizona?

Trinity Sunday is one of the most important holidays in the Orthodox calendar.On this special day, 66-year-old Father Nikolai ...

(Exodus 12:1–2) As we saw in the previous chapter, the calendar expert Professor Bickerman stated, ‘The pre-Babylonian time reckoning of the ancient Hebrews is virtually unknown’, and the Jewish ...