1st Month Of Jewish Calendar

1st Month Of Jewish Calendar. The jewish calendar is both solar and lunar, consisting of 12 months of either 29 or 30 days. Rosh chodesh (first of the month) occurs a day or two after the astronomical new moon, when the moon is first visible again.

Since the spread of the gregorian calendar throughout the christian world in the 16th and 17th centuries, most of. The first of nissan (the 1st month) marks the new beginning of the calendar month cycle.