The Jewish Calendar counts the years according to the time as specified in the Bible, starting about 5770 years ago, or around 3760 BCE. And of course, the Jewish year has nothing to do with the Gregorian one. Now, unfortunately for us, dates usually come with a year attached to it. That means that translating the day of the month is a relatively straightforward operation. Luckily for us, date translators, there is only one method to translate the letters forming the date, not four different ones as is the case for Gematria. The arcane art of Gematria is a fascinating subject, but, since the topic of the day is translating date, it will not be explored further here.
Some infer that it implies that money is to social life what blood is to physical life as it enables the circulation of essentials needed to maintain life. For example, with the Mussafi method that adds the number of letters in the word to the numerical value of the letters that compose it, the numerical value of the word "silver (money)" and of the word "blood" is the same. Experts in Gematria use it in order to extract philosophical meaning from texts.
This use of letters as numerals is called Gematria. א is worth 1, ב is worth 2 and so on till 10, expressed as י, and then יא is 11 and so on. In Hebrew, letters have been associated with a numerical value. There, the problem is compounded by the fact that numerals in Hebrew dates are given with the numerical system associated with the Hebrew alphabet, i.e., they figure in Hebrew letters rather than in numerals. On-line conversion programs like the one referred to above enable you to translate the date from a previous transliteration, but not directly from the Hebrew alphabet. However, to translate the date into Gregorian date, it requires the use of either a conversion program or a conversion table. Though it becomes more complicate with the numbers, as we will see below. In order to transliterate a date, things are quite simple, at least with the name of the month. In order to correct that drift, the month of Adar Bet (the second Adar) is added to the calendar every two or three years. On a 13-month lunar calendar, the same thing would happen in the opposite direction, only faster. The months drift around the seasons on such a calendar: on a 12-month lunar calendar, the month of Nissan, which is due to occur in the Spring, would move 11 days earlier in the season each year, eventually taking place in the Winter, the Fall, the Summer, and then the Spring again. This means that, as there are approximately 12.4 lunar months in every solar year, a 12-month lunar calendar is about 11 days shorter than a solar year and a 13-month lunar is about 19 days longer than a solar year. This is to compensate for the fact the Hebrew calendar is a strictly lunar calendar.
#English to hebrew transliteration plus#
The Hebrew calendar has 12 months plus a thirteen's one that is added to the year every two or three years (see table below). Translating the date literally mean translating the name of the months, or, more exactly, transliterating them. This comes from the following particularities of the Hebrew calendar. The first question is : "Do you translate the date literally, or in order to match the date in the other language calendar?"Įven the question is difficult to phrase. This of course implies specific translations problems. The Hebrew calendar is very different from the Gregorian one.
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