Monday, June 13, 2016

Jewish Calendar: Solar and Lunar

MyJewishLearning Staff

How the Hebrew calendar works.


The rhythm of Jewish time is determined both by the sun and by the moon. The basic unit of time is naturally enough the day, which is a unit of time determined by the amount of sunlight reaching the earth as it rotates on its axis. In the Western world a day begins in the middle of the night and lasts until the next midnight. Since the standardization of time, days are divided into regular segments of 24 hours.

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