Sivan // סִיוָן
About Sivan
Sivan is the ninth month of the civil year and the third month of the Jewish religious year on the Hebrew calendar.
Iyyar comes at the same time as the secular months May/June.
In the month of Sivan, we celebrate the holiday of Shavuot, when the Torah was given by G!d to the Jewish people on Mount Sinai more than 3,300 years ago. Every year on the holiday of Shavuot, we renew our acceptance of G!d’s gift, and G!d “re-gives” the Torah.
Holidays in Sivan
Sivan History
Circa 1233 BCE
Moses was "drawn out" of the water at three months old, and thus given the name "Moshe."
circa 1313 BCE
The Torah was given to Moses at Mount Sinai and thus observed as the holiday of Shavuot.
circa 1040 & 940 BCE
Birth and Death of King David.
747 BCE
Mordecai and Esther 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.
1090
Worms Jews massacred as part of the Rhineland massacres by the First Crusade during morning prayers after taking refuge in a local castle
1171
The first blood libel in France – tens of Jewish men and women were burned alive in the French town of Blois on the accusation that Jews used the blood of Christian children in the preparation of matzah for Passover.
1648
Cossack riots begin with the Khmelnytsky Uprising pogrom.
1834
1834 looting of Safed breaks out
Sivan Zodiac
The mazal (Zodiac) for Nisan is Gemini, Teomim (the twins). We can think of the twins as symbolizing the two identical “tablets of the covenant” given to Moses at Sinai.