''Sivan'' (

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: סִיוָן, Standard ''Sīvan'', Tiberian ''Sīwān''; from

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''simānu'', meaning "Season; time") is the ninth month of the civil year and the third month of the ecclesiastical year on the

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. It is a month of 30 days. ''Sivan'' usually falls in May–June on the

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. Along with all other current, post-biblical Jewish month names, Sivan was adopted during the

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. In the

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it was named Araḫ Simanu.

Holidays in Sivan

* 6–7 Sivan – Shavuot

Sivan in Jewish history

* 1 Sivan (1096) –

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Jews massacred as part of the Rhineland massacres by the

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during morning prayers after taking refuge in a local castle. (see " Iyar in Jewish History" for

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8.) * 4 Sivan ( BCE) – Birth of

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. * 6 Sivan (c. ?) - Birth of the Seventh Antediluvian Patriarch/Hero Enoch. * 6 Sivan (c. 1313 BCE) – The Torah was given to Moses at

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and thus observed as the holiday of Shavuot. * 6 Sivan (c. 940 BCE) - Death of

. * 6 Sivan (1760) – Death of

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* 6 Sivan (1940) – Death of Rabbi Yaakov Yehuda Aryeh Leib Frenkel * 7 Sivan (c. 1233 BCE) – Moses was "drawn out" of the water at three months old, and thus given the name "Moshe" also observed on the holiday of Shavuot. * 7 Sivan (1834) – 1834 looting of Safed breaks out * 7 Sivan (1966) – Death of Rabbi

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* 13 Sivan (1648) – Cossack riots begin with the Khmelnytsky Uprising pogrom * 20 Sivan (1171) – The first

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in France – tens of Jewish men and women were burned alive in the French town of

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on the accusation that Jews used the blood of

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children in the preparation of matzah for

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. * 23 Sivan (474 BCE) –

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and

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sent letters so that the Jews shall prepare themselves for the annihilation plan orchestrated by Haman to be committed against them on the 13th of the following Adar. * 27 Sivan (1790) – " Purim of

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" – a celebration set to celebrate this day when Florentine Jews were saved from a

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About the Month of Sivan

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Holidays in Sivan

Sivan in Jewish history

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