Calendars for each month are offered on these pages free for you to use. Each month begins with the sighting of the first visible sliver of the new moon in Israel and reflects the annual Torah reading cycle for the diaspora. Click on the link below each calendar for a printer-friendly pdf file. (If you don't have the current version of the free Adobe Reader software installed to open and print these files, click here.)

Our halakha for these calendars:

• The beginning of the year is based on the abiv barley in Israel.
• The beginning of the month is based on the sighting of the first visible sliver of the new moon from Israel.
• We follow the “Actual Visibility with 30-Day Maximum” opinion, which states that a month can be 28, 29 or 30 days, but a month cannot be longer than 30 days.
• We do not follow the “potential visibility” opinion, which states that if the new moon is astronomically expected to be visible (not borderline) but is not seen due to weather, then it will be declared even though it was not visible. We believe that YHVH sets the times and the seasons and controls the weather. We are instructed to declare what we see, not to declare what is calculated that we may potentially expect to see.
• We show the potential visibility of the new moon on these calendars and post the actual sighting information with links to witness reports on our home page in the section “Rosh Chodesh.”
• The calendars of the 1st, 3rd and 7th months are updated on Rosh Chodesh to show the Moedim based on the above criteria.

For further study on a moon that is astronomically expected to be visible (not borderline) but is not seen due to weather, here is a synopsis of opinions on this from the Karaite Jews, who also follow the scripture commands to begin our months at the sighting of the first visible sliver of the new moon from Israel as well as using the abiv barley to determine the beginning of the new year.

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PDF printer-friendly calendars: as shown | without local (Tigard) candle lighting times

PDF printer-friendly calendars: as shown | without local (Tigard) candle lighting times

PDF printer-friendly calendars: as shown | without local (Tigard) candle lighting times

PDF printer-friendly calendars: as shown | without local (Tigard) candle lighting times