Week 40 · The Jewish Year
The Jewish Calendar and Rosh Chodesh
Questions 659–680
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Objectives
Explain this week’s central concepts accurately, respectfully, and in clear language.
Answer Questions 659–680 in complete sentences and correct them after discussion.
Connect belief and law to observable practice in home, synagogue, and community.
Core content
Lunar-solar calendar; months; leap years; Rosh Chodesh; Hallel; Ya’aleh veYavo; Kiddush Levanah.
Required reading
Siddur and machzor; Haggadah; practical festival guide; selected Tanakh and rabbinic sources for each season.
Practical observance
Build the coming year’s calendar with Hebrew dates, candle-lighting times, fasts, and festivals.
Hebrew strand
Practice 10–15 minutes daily: festival texts, Haggadah, and calendar terms. Record one passage that became easier this week.
Homework and reflection
Complete written responses for 659–680; mark every answer that depends on local custom or rabbinic ruling.
Write 150–250 words: “How should this week’s learning change the way I live?”
Record attendance, practice completed, uncertainties, and one question for the sponsoring rabbi.
Rabbinic checkpoint
Navigate civil and Hebrew dates and know when liturgical additions occur.