Ijjar

Ijjar ( Hebrew אייר) is the eighth month according to the “civil” Jewish calendar and the second month according to the “religious” calendar. It always lasts 29 days. According to the Gregorian calendar , the Ijjar begins in mid-April.

All Jewish month names come from the time of the Babylonian exile . In the Tanach the name Ijjar is not documented, the second month there is called Siw ( 1 Kings 6,1  LUT .37 LUT ).

The term is derived from the Akkadian word ayyaru , which means "light".

The following feast days and days of remembrance fall in the Ijjar:

• the Yom HaZikaron (4.)
• the Yom Ha'atzmaut (5) (Israel Independence Day)
• the second Passover (Hebrew Passover Sheni )
• Lag baOmer (18.)
• of Jerusalem Day (28)

The flood is said to have started on the seventeenth day of the Ijjar . ( Gen 7.11  EU )

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