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Tevet
Month number10
Number of days29
SeasonWinter (Northern Hemisphere)
Gregorian equivalentDecember–January

Tevet (Hebrew: טֵבֵת, Standard Tevet; Yemenite Ṭeveth; Ashkenazi Teves; Tiberian Ṭēvēṯh; from Akkadian ṭebētu) is the fourth month of the civil year and the tenth month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar. It follows Kislev and precedes Shevat. It is a month of 29 days. Tevet usually occurs in December–January on the Gregorian calendar. In the Babylonian calendar its name was Araḫ Ṭebētum, the "muddy month".

Gregorian new year

The Gregorian New Year's Day (1 January) nearly always occurs in this month. Only rarely will it occur in either of the two neighbouring months (Kislev or Shevat).

Holidays in Tevet

25 Kislev – 2 Tevet Hanukkah (or 3 Tevet if Kislev is short)
10 TevetTenth of Tevet (Asara beTevet), a fast day

Community holidays

  • 5 Tevet is celebrated as a holiday by Chabad Hasidim, commemorating the 1987 verdict concerning an inheritance claim on the books of Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersohn.

Tevet in Jewish history and tradition

Alexander the great meet the high priest after the Samaritans said the Jews intend to betray him [2]

References

  1. ^ Mordechai Margoliouth (ed.), Halakhot Eretz Yisrael min ha-Genizah, Mossad Harav Kook: Jerusalem 1973, p. 141 (Hebrew)
  2. ^ talmud yoma tractate p.69a
  3. ^ "Day View". Shimon ben Shetach successfully completed the expulsion of the Sadducees (a sect which denied the Oral Torah and the authority of the Sages) who had dominated the Sanhedrin (Supreme Court), replacing them with his Torah-loyal Pharisaic disciples