The material in the upper right of our home page is the current Hebrew date written in Hebrew letters. To view it properly, you must have an operating system and browser that can display Hebrew fonts and have the appropriate fonts installed. Support for the display of Hebrew just requires the installation of the proper fonts in Windows 98, 2000, XP and Vista. It is possible to add fonts to permit the display of Hebrew in older systems and older browsers too. Hebrew text display is an installation option with Internet Explorer 5.5 and higher and Netscape 6.01.

For help with obtaining free Hebraic fonts and installation instructions see:

http://www.qsm.co.il/Hebrew/
http://www.snunit.k12.il/heb_new.html
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/hebrew.html
http://oketz.com/fonts/

As of this moment, the date display on the welcome page shows the next date at 6 PM in Jerusalem. Since the Hebrew day begins at sundown, the date will be incorrect when sundown is not exactly at 6 PM. We hope to correct this error in a future update.

If שבט and שבט are like , then you should be configured properly to view Hebrew text. If you see ùáè, then either you don't have an appropriate Hebrew font or your browser is not configured to use the font.

If you see טבש , with the same characters in the same order as then your browser is displaying visual Hebrew characters but it is not handling them as logical Hebrew characters and you are seeing them in reverse order.

For help in installing fonts under Windows 95 or 98 see:

http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/windowshelp.html

For help in installing fonts under Macintosh Systems see:

http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/macfonthelp.html

For general information about the Hebrew calendar, see this explanation by Claus Tøndering.

The encodings up to 900 are:

500: Tuf Koof (400+100)
600: Tuf Raish (400+200)
700: Tuf Shin (400+300)
800: Tuf Tuf (400+400)
900: Tuf Tuf Koof (400+400+100)

Beyond 1000, numbers are broken into two parts separated by a geresh (apostrophe).  To the right of the geresh is the number of thousands and to the left is the number of units, both using the encoding shown above. Single digit numbers are followed by a geresh. Multiple digit numbers have a gershayim (double quote) between the next-to-last and last digit. The numbers 15 and 16 are encoded using Tet instead of Yood to avoid combinations that appear to be part of the name of G-d.

Examples:

  5699 = (from right to left) HAY geresh TUF RAISH TSADEK gershayim  TET
  5762 = (from right to left) HAY geresh TUF SHIN SAMECH gershayim  BET

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