Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1853. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... FEASTS AND FASTS. Our object in this chaper is to present a succinct view of the feasts and fasts as they occur in the Jewish Calendar, and the manner in which they are celebrated. The Jewish year consists of twelve lunar months, each having twenty-nine or thirty days. The difference between the solar and lunar months, however, would occasion, in the cycle of nineteen years, a complete reversal of the months; to prevent which, seven times during that period, an additional month is inserted, This additional month is called Va-adar ("TIKl) or Adar Sheni ('j2 Y1K) i. e. second Adar; and the year in which it occurs is called Shenath Ngebbur (TOy roc) or leap-year. The Jews have two sorts of years, the civil and the ecclesiastical. The civil year commences in the month called Tishri--on the first day of which the Jewish authors hold the work of creation was begun. All civil and commercial matters are dated according to this year. The ecclesiastical year commences in the month of Nissan, in commemoration of their departure out of Egypt. All feasts and fasts are computed according to this year. calendar, explaining, as we go on, the mode in which the feasts and fasts are celebrated. As the Jewish months are lunar, none of these years corresponds with the year adopted by the Christian world--the months varying their time continually. In the subjoined calendar we have arranged the months of the Christian year according as they will stand in the next Jewish year; which will give our reader a correct and complete idea of the subject. The Festivals of the Jewish Calendar, for the year 5614, comprising parts of the Christian years of 1853, 1854. Tishri. This month, as already noticed, is the beginning of the new year, and has always thirty days. In it, we are told, was the w...
