Reply To: Tal Umotor Reminder

To explain the Tur calendar referred above:

There are three functions that need to be performed. One, find the 19 year cycle the current year resides in, two, find the current year in the cycle and three, determine the holidays within the current year.
There are three calendar parts. The top of page 1 is used to find the current year in the cycle, the bottom page the cycle and page 2, the holidays.
1. To find the current 19 year cycle, look for a year entry that either is equal to the current year (choose it) or an entry which is less and next enry is greater and choose the lesser.
2. From the top of the page count down line by line from the beginning of the chosen cycle year until you reach the current year. Remember the designation of the beginning of the line by either a ‘peh’ for a simple, peshuta year or a ‘mem’ for leap, meubar year. Find the intersection between chosen vertical year cycle entry and the horizantal current year.
3. On the page 2, either in the peshuta or meubar year find the column entry that the two letters intersected and read off the holidays.
The two letters in the intersection indicate, one, the day when Rosh Hashana occurs and two, whether cheshvan and kislev are defficient, a ‘ches’, choser or full, a ‘shien’, shalem or even, in order, kesidran, a ‘chaf’.