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The Yesod veshoresh hovodah says to bring Mashiach, do good to people who did bad to you. He says it from Zohar that this stops tragedies and antisemitism. Pray for people who hurt you to get the most Olom Habah and then pray for Mashiach and for everyon

thankyou1827 9 months ago 0

The Yesod veshoresh hovodah says to bring Mashiach, do good to people who did bad to you. He says it from Zohar that this stops tragedies and antisemitism. Pray for people who hurt you to get the most Olom Habah and then pray for Mashiach and for everyone to have Techiyas hameisim. Put this sign in shul, Email this to everyone

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Engish only displa

HebCal User 9 months ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 8 months ago 2

Hello,

I created a calendar several years ago, downloaded it and then imported it into my Google account.

This was before the "counter" was implemented into the calendar (that Heb Cal added "3rd Hebrew Birthday" or "2nd Yahrzeit" text before the persons name).


As the family expanded (or לא עלינו shrunk), I added more events to the calendar. At one point I noticed the change that the "counter" was added. It is a great idea and I loved it. Prior to the counter I added to the persons name the year of birth or passing and then one could calculate how many years past.


I wanted now to add another event to the calendar.

But, I noticed a change - the "counter" is now in Hebrew (יארצייט ה-2 של Itzhak ben Avraham) and I don't see how to change it to English.

I browsed through the "help" section and unfortunately did no find an answer.


Is it possible to change the "יארצייט ה-2" to English (I know it's possible to open the calendar file on notepad++ and change it manually, but I hope it's possible to do it through Heb Cal website prior of downloading the file).


If it makes any difference, I live in Israel. But, I also tried doing it through a US IP and no change.

Computer details - OS: Win 10 || Region: Israel  || Region format: English (Israel) || OS Language: English US.


Thank you!

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Michael J. Radwin 8 months ago

Based on your feedback, we have made a minor change to the calendar events. If the name contains BOTH Hebrew letters and also English letters, the anniversary titles will once again be rendered in English. If the name contains at least one Hebrew letter (א through ת‎) and contains no English letters (A-Z), then the anniversary title will continue to be rendered in Hebrew.

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November 30 Error?

Jay Goodman 9 months ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 8 months ago 6

November 30 is showing "Mevarchim."

Should it be "Machar Chodesh?"

Thanks

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Michael J. Radwin 8 months ago

Thanks for your message!

The Hebrew Date Converter page for Sat, 30 November 2024 correctly lists the Torah portion as Parashat Toldot

If you look at the Parashat Toldot detail page, you will see that indeed it already lists the special Machar Chodesh Haftarah

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Problem with Subscribed Calendar Link

Joseph 9 months ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 8 months ago 5

Created a subscribed calendar link which originally contained only Yahrzeit's. I have now started adding birthdays and anniversaries. The name has changed to Hebrew Anniversaries. However the subscribed link ends with name Yahrzeit.ics. This is weirding me out. Happy to try to copy over my calendar  and create a new link but don't want to do one event at a time. Any solutions?

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Mountain Standard Time not showing up on calendar even though I put in Arizona

ewbecker 9 months ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 8 months ago 2
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Michael J. Radwin 8 months ago

Thank you for corresponding with us privately, the information you provided was very helpful. We've fixed the issue on the Hebcal website, and Arizona ZIP codes now correctly follow the Daylight Saving Time rules. Our apologies for the inaccuracy.

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Hello. What happened to the audio line by line recording of the aliyah? This was helpful!

benjamin gerson 9 months ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 9 months ago 1
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Michael J. Radwin 9 months ago

https://www.hebcal.com/home/498/torah-trope-chanting-audio-leyning

In addition to providing details about the weekly Torah readings, Hebcal makes it convenient to listen to the audio of a professional cantor chanting Torah trope.

If you visit the Hebcal parsha pages from a larger display (desktop/laptop computer or a tablet), you can click the speaker icon to visit Sefaria‘s embedded PocketTorah audio.


The Sefaria native mobile app does not currently support the PocketTorah audio, so the Hebcal speaker icons are not displayed on mobile phones. The audio is displayed only on Sefaria website and depends on a larger screen, such as a desktop/laptop computer or a tablet.

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Please add credit to the two Jewish authors behind the Hebcal algorithms

Tomer 10 months ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 10 months ago 1

The Hebcal UNIX program was a C reimplementation of the calendar code found in the Emacs text editor. That was written by Prof. Edward Reingold, who wrote a book on calendar algorithms with Nahum Dershowitz. I think it would be showing kavod to include both their names under the "About" page on Hebcal.org, as they are the ones who contributed the core technology. Here is a page with more information:

http://hebcal.github.io/

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EdwardReingold

Thanks,

~Tomer Altman

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Michael J. Radwin 10 months ago

Thanks for the suggestion. We updated our "about Hebcal" page as follows

Hebcal was created in 1992 by Danny Sadinoff as a Unix/Linux program, derived in large part from the Emacs 19 calendar routines by Edward M. Reingold and Nachum Dershowitz.

https://www.hebcal.com/home/about

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Hi. Is there a calendar download option in excel?

dkatz 10 months ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 10 months ago 1
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Parshat Chukat : Triennial Cycle

david scaduto 10 months ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 10 months ago 1

Are the readings for Parshat Chukat correct the triennial cycle, Year 2? I see that there was a mistake in the original planning document that was later correct on Hebcal, but I wonder if perhaps this was overlooked. The kriyah for Year 2 is shown as beginning at the beginning of the full parasha, which I don’t believe is correct. 

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Michael J. Radwin 10 months ago

Thanks for your careful attention to Hebcal's Torah readings. We can confirm that yes, the readings are 100% correct.


The pattern for Chukat-Balak for the current 3-year cycle is Together-Separate-Separate. This maps to Variation C in A Complete Triennial System for Reading the Torah published by the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly, 1988. Here is the relevant excerpt from the 1988 paper:

Yes, there is a document called Modification of the Triennial Cycle Readings for Combined Parashot in Certain Years written by Rabbi Miles B. Cohen, 2020. However, this responsa applies to Variation A, not Variation C.

Lastly, the Miles Cohen luach agrees with both Hebcal and the conservative responsa:


Shabbat shalom!

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Viewing or amending pre-2020 Hebcal dates

Debra 10 months ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 10 months ago 2

Hi,

I uploaded my yahrzeits in 2019 but now I need to amend/add to my list. I spent considerable tie collating them and would need to start again from scratch if I deleted the current Hebcal in my Google calendar. Is there any way of seeing the hebrew dates so that I don't have to start again?