אייר
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- Iyar (second month)
- Synonym: זיו (Ziv)
- a. 217 C.E., Mishnah, Rosh Hashanah 1:3:
- וּכְשֶׁהָיָה בֵית הַמִּקְדָּשׁ קַיָּם, יוֹצְאִין אַף עַל אִיָּר מִפְּנֵי פֶסַח קָטָן:
- U-kh-she-hayá véit ha-miqdásh qayyám, yots'ín af al Iyyár mipné Pésaḥ Qaṭán.
- And when the Temple stood, they would even go out for Iyyar, on account of Second Passover.
- a. 500 C.E., Babylonian Talmud, Rosh Hashanah 11b:
- רַבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ אוֹמֵר: אוֹתוֹ הַיּוֹם שִׁבְעָה עָשָׂר בְּאִיָּיר הָיָה, יוֹם שֶׁמַּזַּל כִּימָה שׁוֹקֵעַ בַּיּוֹם וּמַעְיָנוֹת מִתְמַעֲטִין
- Rabbii Yehoshúa omér: otó ha-yom shiv'á 'asár b-Iyyár hayá, yom she-mazál kimá shoqéa' ba-yom u-ma'yanót mitma'aṭín.
- Rabbi Yehoshua says: that day was the seventeenth of Iyar, the day that the Pleiades set during the day and the wellsprings are diminished.
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אייר • (iyer) m
- Iyar (eighth month)