The name of the third month of fall in the Hebrew calendar is from the Akkadian word meaning “boneless.” Hanukkah, the festival of lights, begins on 25 Kislev and lasts for eight days and nights. concluding on 2 or 3 Tevet. Kislev corresponds in Jewish astrology to קשת (ḳeshet, meaning “arch”) and to Sagittarius, whose nature is fire. In 2026, 11 November is 1 Kislev 5787, and Hanukkah starts on 4 December.
Book of Months