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Jewish Month Length Mnumonic

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If you want to find out if a month is Male (30 days ) or Chaser ( 29 days ). Start counting from Nisan and the month number plus the number of days in the month will always be odd, like a parity bit

Nisan(1) + 30 = 31 //odd
Iyar(2)  + 29 = 31 //odd
Sivan(3) + 30 = 33 //odd
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This works for a regular, Kseder year.

For a leap year, Adar 1 is 30 , and Adar 2 is 29, so here you can find the length of Adar n, by using a modified parity bit rule.

 Adar (1) + 30 = 31 //odd
 Adar (2) + 29 = 31 //odd

The only thing this doesn’t cover is Chesvan and Kislev, because they change depending on if the year is Male or Chaser, and that is a much more complicated calculation.

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