hebrew: Hebrew calendar dates

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Hebrew calendar dates

Description

The Hebrew (or Jewish) calendar is an official calendar of Israel, and is used for Jewish religious holidays. It is a lunisolar calendar comprising months of 29 or 30 days, which begin and end at approximately the time of the new moon. An extra lunar month is added every 2 or 3 years, so the calendar has either 12 or 13 months per year.

Usage

hebrew_date(year = integer(), month = integer(), day = integer())

as_hebrew(date)

ohebrew_date(year = integer(), month = integer(), day = integer())

as_ohebrew(date)

samaritan_date(year = integer(), month = integer(), day = integer())

as_samaritan(date)

Arguments

year	A numeric vector of years
month	A numeric vector of months
day	A numeric vector of days
date	Vector of dates on some calendar

Details

The observational Hebrew calendar ("ohebrew") is the classical calendar where the new month began with the reported observation of the crescent new moon. In this implementation, Haifa is taken as the point of observation.

The Samaritan calendar is similar, but the moment of new moon marking the start of each new month is based on a traditional reckoning of the lunar cycle,

Value

A hebrew vector object

See Also

cal_hebrew, rosh_hashanah

Examples

heb <- new_date(year = 5785, month = 3, day = 2:4, calendar = cal_hebrew)
heb
hebrew_date(5785, 3, 2:4)
as_date(heb, calendar = cal_gregorian)
as_date(Sys.Date(), calendar = cal_hebrew)
tibble::tibble(
  gregorian = gregorian_date(2025, 1, 1) + 0:364,
  hebrew = as_date(gregorian, calendar = cal_hebrew),
)
as_gregorian(hebrew_date(5785, 3, 2:4))
as_hebrew(gregorian_date(2025, 1, 1:31))
as_hebrew("2016-01-01")
as_hebrew(Sys.Date())
hebrew_date(5785, 3, 1:10) |> day_of_week()

calcal documentation built on Feb. 25, 2026, 9:07 a.m.