Jewish Year

Jewish Year
The Jewish calendar
The Jewish calendar follows the moon, which is to say that there is "only" 354 days on the Jewish year. This means that the time moving with respect to the western calendar that is based on the sun, and therefore has 365 days. It compensates you for Judaism, by inserting an extra month every two or three years, so it will always follow the western calendar fairly. That does ever that the dates move slightly back and forth from year to year. This is because a Jewish year is lost each year 11 days, but by the insertion of an "extra" monthly jump 29 or 30 days ahead (one lunar-month consists of 29½ days). In Hebrew called the years will acquire an extra month for "Shanah me'uberet" - a pregnant year. The month is applied is called Adar I Adar Rishon (the first Adar) or Adar Aleph (Aleph is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet). Adar Rishon is set in before the month Adar, which are currently being called Adar II, Adar Sheini or Adar Beth.
The Jewish year consists of 12 months except for "shanot me'uberot", consisting of an additional month, that is, 13 months.
Months
• Nissan
• Iyar
• Sivan
• Tammuz
• Av
• Elul
• Tishri
• Chesvan
• Kislev
• Tevet
• Sh'vat
• Adar (in case of Shanah me'uberet: Adar I and Adar II)
Nissan (ניסן) which is the first month of the Jewish year, is 30 days and is in March-April. Pesach is celebrated in Nissan.
Iyar (אייר) is 29 days and is in April-May. Pesach Sheini (the second Pesach) are Iyar.
Sivan (סיון) is 30 days and is in May-June. Shavout located in Sivan.
Tammuz (תמוז) is 29 days and is in June-July. Celebration of the 17th Tammuz this month.
Av (אב) is 30 days and is in July-August. Tisha B'Av is commemorated this month.
Elul (אלול) is 29 days and extends from August to September.
Tishri (תשרי) is 30 days and goes from September to October. It is the beginning of this month that celebrates the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, which begins at sundown on 29 ELUL. Besides Rosh Hashanah is also the largest Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Gedalyahs fasting, Sukkot, Sh'mini Atzeret and Simchat Torah. Tishri is about someone, the one the busiest month for Jews, with several of the major holidays.
Chesvan (חשון) is 29 or 30 days and goes from October to November.
Kislev (כסלו) is 29 or 30 days (Chesvan and Kislev change one day) and goes from November to December. It is in Kislev to start the celebration of Chanukkah.
Tevet (טבת) is 29 days and goes from December to January. Chanukkah ends of Tevet and fasting on 10 Tevet.
Sh'vat (שבט) is 30 days and go from January to February. This month, celebrate Tu b'shevat.
Adar (אדר) is 29 days and is from February to March. It is this month celebrating Purim. In the case of Shanah me'uberet, is Purim Adar II, but there is a "small" Purim Adar I.
The Jewish calendar.

In Judaism, basis in the creation and therefore will experience that the Jews are "longer" advanced than the standard Western calendar. You do not mean necessarily that the earth has only existed for almost 5,800 years, today you do not see the first six days that the 24-hour day, but understand them as periods with a beginning and an end. The Jewish calendar is 3761 years more advanced than the standard Western calendar, which means that we in 2006-2007 will be in the Jewish year 5767 until September.
In Judaism, the user can not name f.kr/e.kr when you do not recognize Jesus. Generally speaking, if you have to express themselves in relation to the Western calendar, before and after the common era.