Jewish Dates for singles and couples alike
Sick of explaining to goyim why the Jewish holidays hardly ever fall on the same date from year to year? Looking for evidence to blame the brits for enforcing the Gregorian calandar on our country? The JCAL-Jewish Calendar Software company provides a clearly outlined History and Rules of the Jewish Calendar. Other resources include looking up a Gregorian date for looking up yahrzeits, birthdays, and anniversaries, Torah readings, Shabbat candle lighting times, or to simply convert any date, you can use the automatic Hebrew Date Converter. Finally, if you would like to download a shareware Jewish calendar for your use, check out Calendar Maven’s Hebrew Calendar.
hey it was my birthday yesterday
Tue 24-Jun-2003 Daniel Sieradski’s Hebrew Birthday (24th of Sivan, 5763)
—mo1 · June 25th, 2003 at 11:59 am
Do you all use the word “goyim” on this site a lot? Goy who know what that means take it as a derogatory term.
—Bradley · June 25th, 2003 at 5:27 pm
A collegue of mine responded with this:
I found the simplest method is to add up the numerical values of the Hebrew letters add 5,000 to them and then subtract 3,761 from the sum. For example if you have a date of taf shin kaf vav on the title page, taf =400 shin=300 kaf=20 and vav=6, so the sum is 726. adding 5,000 gives a total of 5,726 (number of years since creation). 5,726-3,761=1965 which is the Gregorian (Roman) date. You can find a chart of these values in many Hebrew-English dictionaries including Ben-Yehudah’s.
However, there is one caveat in these calculations. Since the beginnings of the Jewish and Gregorian year don’t coincide, 5,726 may be a Gregorian date of either 1965 or 1966.
Additionally, Yale has a gematria calculator to help adding up the letter values.
—Sarah · June 26th, 2003 at 7:05 am
—Nanook · June 26th, 2003 at 7:12 am
shaygitz n shiktzah on the other hand …..
—grubness · June 26th, 2003 at 8:03 am
goyim are the nations of the world. goy is a nation, even Israel is called a goy.
sheygetz and shiksah are the derogatory terms.
—jeanette · June 26th, 2003 at 8:48 am
every time eric goes out with me to a jewish event he introduces himself as the resident shaygetz. “hello, my name is eric, i’ll be your shaygetz for the evening…”
—mo1 · June 26th, 2003 at 10:23 am
Interesting. Maybe it’s a regional thing that goy is considered deragatory.
I have definitly been called it as an insult before on more than one occasion.
Maybe I’ll respond with something like, “It’s sheygetz, doofus.”
—Bradley · June 27th, 2003 at 7:40 am
The following is taken from “The New Joys of Yiddish†explanatory dictionary by Leo Rosen.
Goy: from the Hebrew: goy, “nation.â€
1. A Gentile—that is, anyone who is not a Jew.
a. It is important to note that the idea of respect for others and the values of a pluralistic society form an old, integral part of Judaism and Jewish tradition. The rabbis taught that all people are equal in the eyes of God if they do the will of God.
b. Mormons call any non-Mormon a Gentile; Jews are therefore Gentiles to Mormons; I have never met a Jews who knows how to adjust to this startling idea.
2. Someone who is dull, insensitive, heartless
Just as some Gentiles use “Jew†as a so some Jews use goy in a pejorative sense.
Let me be clear that in my post I was referring to the simple, or literal Hebrew meaning of the word “Goy,†meaning “a non-Jew.â€
—Sarah · June 27th, 2003 at 7:44 am
Thank you for your clearing that up Sarah. I’ve just been descriminated against for not being jewish a lot of my life.
What do you even call revese anti-semitism? Is it anti-anti-semitism?
—Bradley · July 11th, 2003 at 12:00 pm
Since we’re on the subject of Hebrew calendars on the net, I thought I’d tout the one I’ve made.
http://www.bayt.org/calendar/
—Avrom · July 23rd, 2003 at 6:02 pm