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1. a morning a first day The Jewish day begins at sundown the previous day There are only a couple of ways to define what constitutes a day You will find that they all begin by deciding which twilight is the start of the day In the secular world a day starts bizarrely at midnight This is the third way to define a day Finding midnight without an already existing clock is non trivial So an entity living without a clock would define the day in reference to something that actually made sense and could be seen and felt About fifty percent of the cultures defined it as starting with sunrise and about fifty percent defined it as starting with sundown In Judaism the definition is taken from Genesis there was an evening there was a morning a first day Why A Jewish Holidays App If you have ever been on the Board of a Temple Synagog served on the Sisterhood or Brotherhood or been talking to someone about Judaism you have many times been asked when is fill in the Jewish Holiday And you have then thought to yourself Does lt fill in the Jewish Holiday gt begin on that day or the evening before We don t tend to carry around a Jewish Calendar in our heads or on our persons When asked someone will run off to grab the Temple newsletter to look up the date on the calendar page This works fine until you are trying to pick your vacation days to take for Pesach Rosh HaShanah Yom Kippur Succoth or Shavuot Then you can t find a calendar2. anywhere Well not until now Grab your iPhone and press the holiday you are interested in to find out when on the secular calendar of the current secular year displayed the holiday will appear Finally No more chasing down calendars There are some very fine apps on the App Store on iTunes and Mac OS X but they have a completely different focus The other apps are more focused toward education about the holiday or the Hebrew Calendar Jewish Holidays is a tool for information only 1 Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Interpreting the Display When Jewish Holidays launches the first display will not have the upper three lines that contain the holiday information The display will appear as Carrier Test Advertisement 2011 r Rosh Hashanah Illustration 1 Jewish Holidays Launch View The only edit box available is the Secular Year edit field This year can be any year greater than 1946 C E Entering a Year Click anywhere inside the edit field and the numeric punctuation keyboard will appear on Carrier Test Advertisement 2011 Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur n DOS E SUEBUHEOCE IP E ABC space Done Illustration 2 The Edit Field with Keyboard screen This keyboard is the only numeric keyboard that has a Done key that allows you to dismiss the keyboard If you enter a year less than 1947 C E Jewish Holidays will alert you to that fact and will
3. day of Chanukah First candle will be on the evening of the 20 of December Most calendars will show you the dates referenced to the Jewish year Jewish Holidays shows you the date within a secular year So all dates shown for Jewish holidays in our example are within the secular year 2011 To see this with 2011 still showing in the secular year edit field click on the Shavuot button last row right most button You get the following display amm Carrier gt Test Advertisement Shavu ot 06 Sivan 5771 is on 2011 June 08 5771 is a leap year 2011 secular Year gt 1946 a gt i Jeurish US UA UN Illustration 6 Shavuot for Secular Year 201 1 Notice that the Hebrew year shown is now 5771 and that this year is a leap year Jewish Holidays shows you the Jewish Holidays that occur within the secular year you have chosen If you forget when the holidays start or are interested in other Software Industry amp General Hardware products click on the info button in the lower right corner of the display to see the Information View page Enter a secular year and find the secular date for any Jewish Holiday shown secular years must start after 1946 C E Holidays begin at sundown the date before the date shown Y j N A Illustration 7 Jewish Holidays Information Display Here you will find the start of the holidays information and the S I G H logo and QR for quick reference to our WEB pa
4. Jewish Holidays for the iPhone User s Manual by ooftware Industry amp General Hardware S 1 G H Table of Contents there was an evening there was a morning a first day eeeeesseeesseeseeeeeenee 3 Why A dewIisnFoladys ADD sessitesibduxtietiu tc a 3 Jgir igold iine Mig IDS DIA T 4 ENENG A eee nee ene eta TE 5 Finding Chanukah dim Veer o7 l2 A 8 L Even Tip Pro M ki tasking srein E c cas EUM Pap oue ed 11 PANS 91016 f M Tero RERO UU rere tere ee tere ee meer reverence ets 11 At The App Store Near YOU auditors Ebo ELE Is Por RUE DP poatU tuto IS eX ieee 11 Coming 1o Am ABbDeltore Near YOU cenena ipee xisse Seules Yon QES a E ad EM eril neon dE 11 Jewish Holidays The Jewish calendar is uses both lunar and solar calculations but is primarily a lunar calendar It has undergone many changes over the years and it is COMPLICATED There is a 19 year lunar adjustment to compensate for as well as the fact that the moon is changing orbit al distance and rotational speed is varying These changes have grown throughout the years in a set of rules that is quite large it is to borrow a quote from Douglas Adams mind bogglingly huge If you are fascinated by such things you can begin your search at Wikipedia http en wikipedia org wiki Jewish Calendar Do not be surprised if you end up visiting several hundreds of links there was an evening there was
5. even correct the year to a usable year The usable year is the current year not year 1947 C E 2011 September 29 5772 isa Normal Year Jewish Holidays Warning Year 1946 is not greater than 1946 C E Please Correct the secular year Yom HaShoah Yom HaAtzmaut a Illustration 3 Invalid Year Alert Click on the OKAY button on the alert notification and the alert will be dismissed The secular year is then updated with the current year and the date in the current secular year for Rosh HaShanah is displayed Carrier Test Advertisement 2011 Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur Sukkot Simchat Torah Chanukah Tu BiSh vat Yom HaShoah Yom HaAtzmaut Tishah B Av Shavu ot Illustration 4 Display Following Wrong Year Alert Dismissal Press any of the segmented buttons and the display will be updated with the information for the selected holiday in the secular year shown Finding Chanukah in year 5772 Make sure you have the year 2011 entered in the secular year edit field Then click on the Chanukah button 3 row left most button You will get the following display Carrier Test Advertisement 2011 Illustration 5 Chanukah Display for Year 5772 The three lines near the top of the display indicate that the 25 of Kislev 5772 will be on 2011 December 21 and that 5772 is a normal year not a leap year It also means that the 21 of December is the first
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