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The Jewish calendar is a lunar calendar. It consists of 12 months except in a leap year which has an additional month. The leap year keeps the months in line with the seasons and occurs seven times in every nineteen years.

The Jewish day begins at sunset. All Jewish holidays begin at sunset and end at nightfall when three stars appear in the sky. These times can be calculated and the stars need not be seen.

Shabat - the Sabbath - is more important than all the other days with the exception of Yom Kippur. When one of the other holidays falls on Shabat, the laws applicable to Shabat apply. Shabat is the seventh day of the week (or Saturday). Shabat begins at Sunset on Friday night and ends at nightfall the following evening. On Shabat no work - or more specifically no creative work - is allowed. However where life is at stake all the laws of Shabat must be ignored in order to save a life.

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Shot taken at Mt.Meiron during a morning prayer. Day of Shabat

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