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{{Short description|3rd month of the Hebrew calendar}} {{other uses}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2020}} {{Infobox month | image = Shavuot bikkurim.jpg | alt = | caption = [[Shavuot]], the Festival of Weeks, marks the day the [[Torah]] was given to the [[Israelites]] at [[Mount Sinai]]. [[First Fruits#Hebrew perspective|Bikkurim]] are given as offerings, as in this picture from [[Nahalal]], Israel in 2006. | native_name = {{Native name|he| {{Script/Hebrew|סִיוָן}}}} | calendar = [[Hebrew calendar]] | num = 3 | days = 30 | season = Spring (Northern Hemisphere) | gregorian = May–June | holidays = [[Shavuot]] | prev_month = [[Iyar]] | next_month = [[Tammuz (Hebrew month)|Tammuz]] }} '''''Sivan''''' ({{hebrew name|סִיוָן|Sivan|Siwān}}, from [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]] ''simānu'', meaning "season; time") is the ninth month of the civil year and the third month of the religious year on the [[Hebrew calendar]]. It is a month of 30 days. ''Sivan'' usually falls in May–June on the [[Gregorian calendar]]. Along with all other current, post-biblical Jewish month names, Sivan was adopted during the [[Babylonian captivity]]. In the [[Babylonian calendar]] it was named Araḫ Simanu.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Muss-Arnolt |first1=W. |date=1892 |title=The Names of the Assyro-Babylonian Months and Their Regents |journal=Journal of Biblical Literature |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=72–94 |doi=10.2307/3259081 |jstor=3259081 |hdl-access=free |hdl=2027/mdp.39015030576584}} (free access at [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015030576584&seq=9]).</ref> ==Holidays== * '''6–7 Sivan''' – [[Shavuot]] ==In Jewish history== <!-- Still need to finish after Iyar (excluding Av) --> * '''1 Sivan''' (1096) – Jews in [[Worms, Germany]] were massacred as part of the [[Rhineland massacres]] by the [[First Crusade]] during [[Shacharit|morning prayers]] after taking refuge in a local castle. (see "[[Iyar#Iyar in Jewish history|Iyar in Jewish History]]" for '''[[Iyar]] 8'''.) * '''4 Sivan''' ({{circa|1040}} BCE) – Birth of [[David]]. * '''6 Sivan''' (c. ?) - Birth of the Seventh Antediluvian Patriarch/Hero [[Enoch]]. * '''6 Sivan''' (c. 1313 BCE) – The Torah was given to Moses at [[Mount Sinai]] and thus observed as the holiday of [[Shavuot]]. * '''6 Sivan''' (c. 940 BCE) - Death of [[David]]. * '''6 Sivan''' (1760) – Death of [[Baal Shem Tov]] * '''6 Sivan''' (1940) – Death of Rabbi [[Yaakov Yehuda Aryeh Leib Frenkel]] * '''7 Sivan''' (c. 1233 BCE) – Moses was "drawn out" of the water at three months old, and thus given the name "Moshe" also observed on the holiday of [[Shavuot]]. * '''7 Sivan''' (1834) – [[1834 looting of Safed]] breaks out * '''7 Sivan''' (1966) – Death of Rabbi [[Yisroel Moshe Olewski]] * '''13 Sivan''' (1648) – [[Cossack riots]] begin with the [[Khmelnytsky Uprising]] pogrom * '''20 Sivan''' (1171) – The first [[blood libel]] in France – tens of Jewish men and women were burned alive in the French town of [[Blois]] on the accusation that Jews used the blood of [[Christians|Christian]] children in the preparation of [[matzah]] for [[Passover]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2015}} Commemorated by [[Twentieth of Sivan]], which also marks anniversary of Khmelnytsky Uprising. * '''23 Sivan''' (474 BCE) – [[Mordecai]] and [[Esther]] sent letters so that the Jews shall prepare themselves for the annihilation plan orchestrated by [[Haman]] to be committed against them on the 13th of the following Adar. * '''27 Sivan''' (1790) – "[[Purim]] of [[Florence]]" – a celebration set to celebrate this day when Florentine Jews were saved from a [[ochlocracy|mob]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2015}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Duetsch |first=Gotthard |url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12450-pu-rims-special |title=Jewish Encyclopedia |last2=Franco |first2=M. |last3=Malter |first3=Henry |publisher=Funk & Wagnalls Co. |year=1905 |volume=10 |location=New York |pages=281 |chapter=Purims, Special: |access-date=May 21, 2024}}</ref> ==See also== * [[Jewish astrology]] ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3922296/jewish/About-the-Month-of-Sivan.htm About the Month of Sivan] * [http://www.inner.org/times/sivan/index.php Resources on the Month of Sivan] {{Jewish and Israeli holidays}} [[Category:Sivan| ]] [[Category:Months of the Hebrew calendar]]
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