Scroll & StoneThe Story of the Tribe of Israel - עם ישראל
Today
A Year in Jewish Time
The tribe lives inside its own clock - lunar months trued against the sun, festivals commanded into the seasons of one specific land. The Torah names Pesach the Festival of Spring - and the leap month exists to keep that commandment.
drag or scroll to travel · a full turn is a year · ← → step months, PgUp/PgDn step years, T for today
The wheel of the year, in stone: the zodiac mosaic from the synagogue floor at Beit Alpha (Israel, 6th century CE). The twelve signs - each labelled in Hebrew with its month - ring the sun in its chariot, and the four seasons sit in the corners. It is the Jewish year made visible: months follow the moon, but the seasons, and the festivals tied to them, are kept in step with the sun.
Public domain · Beit Alpha synagogue mosaic, c. 6th century CE · via Wikimedia Commons
✦ Right now
Today
Hebrew date
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Coming Shabbat
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Sunset Friday to Saturday night
Hebrew year
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Year in its cycle
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✦ The days the tribe keeps lit
Festivals & Observances
Dates shown are for Israel. Where diaspora communities observe an additional day, this is noted. Gregorian dates are computed from the Hebrew calendar engine used by the spiral above.
✦ The longer rhythms
Shmitta and Yovel
Beyond the annual cycle, the Hebrew calendar counts in sevens and forty-nines - rhythms written into the law for the land.
