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Jewish month acronyms



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Post Sun, May 01 2022, 7:56 pm
Chodesh Tov! I learned that the name of each Jewish month is an acronym. We often learn that Elul is an acronym for Ani L'Dodi V'Dodi Li. This month, Iyar, is an acronym for Ani Hashem Refoecha.

Does anyone have a list of the acronyms for all the Jewish months, please?
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amother
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Post Sun, May 01 2022, 8:03 pm
The names of the Jewish months have babylonian origins. The Torah calls each month by its number - 1st, 2nd,etc.

If there's an acronym, it's a nice mnemonic, but I'm don't think you'll find a pasuk for all 12.
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Post Mon, May 02 2022, 1:18 pm
Right. The verses were applied later; they are not the source of the names we use, which are Babylonian and were brought back after the end of the Babylonian Exile. The genuinely Jewish names of months are either the numeric as in hachodesh harishon, hachodesh hash'vii or a very few non-numeric names like chodesh ha-aviv, chodesh eitanim, chodesh ziv.

The verses are a clever way to try to "kasher" something nonJewish in origin. For example, the surname Wallach, also Vlach, vav-lamed-chaf, is from Wallachia, a region in Romania. It's been "Judaized" into an acronym for Ve'ahavta lere'acha kamocha, but this is not its origin. Similarly, the name Bloch, which may be a derivative of Wallach if Eastern European, or may be the straightforward German word for "block," was repurposed as rashei tevot for Bnei levi kulanu--though Bloch is not a Levite name. And Byk, which means "ox" in Polish, is far more acceptable if viewed as rashei tevot for Bnei Yisrael kedoshim.
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Post Mon, May 02 2022, 1:29 pm
I heard that AV stands for Elul Bu, Elul is coming
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Post Mon, May 02 2022, 1:31 pm
Iyar is "Ani H-shem Rofecha" Adar can also be the same thing. If you need procedures done it's a good time to schedule them.
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