Sivan

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This article is about the Hebrew month of Sivan. For the Ayyavazhi god, see Three godheads (Ayyavazhi)

Sivan (Hebrew: סִיוָן, Standard Sivan Tiberian Sîwān ; from Akkadian simānu, meaning "Season; time") is the ninth month of the civil year and the third month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar. It is a spring month of 30 days. Sivan usually falls in May–June on the Gregorian calendar.

1 Holidays in Sivan
2 This Month in Jewish History
3 People named Sivan
4 External links

[edit] Holidays in Sivan

Shavuot - Sivan 6, though in Karaite Judaism the exact date varies

[edit] This Month in Jewish History

1 Sivan - (2105 BCE) - Flood Waters Recede

150 days after the rains stopped falling in the Great Flood, the raging waters which covered the face of the earth calmed and began to subside at the rate of one cubit every four days (Genesis 8:3; Rashi, ibid. See "Today in Jewish History" for Cheshvan 17.)

1 Sivan - (1313 BCE) - Encampment at Sinai

On the 1st of Sivan of the year 2448 from creation (1313 BCE), six weeks after their exodus from Egypt, the Children of Israel arrived at Mount Sinai in the Sinai Desert and camped at the foot of the mountain "as one man, with one heart" in preparation for the receiving of the Torah from G-d. On this day, however "Moses did not say anything to them, because of their exhaustion from the journey."

1 Sivan - (1312 BCE) - Korach Swallowed Up by the Earth

Korach, who led a rebellion against the leadership of Moses and Aaron, met his end when, miraculously, "the ground split beneath them... And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained to Korach, and all their possessions" (Numbers 16:31-32).

1 Sivan - (1096) - Worms Jews Massacred

At the end of a week in which a group Jews took refuge in a local castle in Worms, Germany, the crusaders massacred them during their morning prayers. (see "This Month in Jewish History" for Iyar 8.)