Day (of Adar)

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Shebat 1 Feb. 2

First New Moon Day (of Adar)

Shebat 30 Mch. 4 First New Moon Day (of Adar Sheni)

Adar 13 Mch 17

Shebat 30

Adar 30

5686

is called 686 (1") according to the short system (p">). It is a perfect year of 12 months, 51 Sabbaths, 355 days, beginning on Saturday, the seventh day of the week, and having the first day of Passover on Tuesday, the third day of the week; therefore its sign is nw,i. e., 1 for the seventh,

for perfect (b) and 1 for third. It is the fifth year of the 300th lunar cycle of 19 years, and the second year of the 204th solar cycle of 28 years, since Creation.