Sivan

Siwan / סיון is the ninth month according to the " bourgeois " Jewish calendar and the third month after the " religious " calendar. He always takes 30 days. According to the Gregorian calendar Sivan begins mid-May.

The term " Siwan " is probably from the Akkadian word Simanu derive, which denotes a set time. There might also be a word kinship with the ancient Canaanite month names Siw / זו ), which is, however, counted as of the second month of the year.

All Jewish month names date from the time of the Babylonian exile. In the Tanakh the term " Siwan " is unique (Est 8.9 LUT) is:

" Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day, and it was written how Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the princes, governors and princes of the provinces from the Indus to to the Nile hundred and twenty countries, each one landing in his writing, to each people in its own language and to the Jews according to their writing, and language. "

On the 6th of Sivan - 50 days after Passover - Shavuot is the festival, which celebrated " Feast of Weeks ".