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Yahrzeit Calculator

The recurring Hebrew-calendar anniversary of a death date, for any Gregorian year.

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About the Yahrzeit Calculator

Finds the Gregorian date of a Yahrzeit — the recurring Hebrew-calendar anniversary of a death — for any given Gregorian year.

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How to use it
  1. Enter the Gregorian date of death.
  2. Enter which Gregorian year you want the Yahrzeit date for.
  3. Read the Hebrew date of death and the Yahrzeit date in that year.
Formula
Converts the death date to its Hebrew-calendar date, then finds which Gregorian date that same Hebrew month/day falls on in the requested Gregorian year.
Worked example

A death on January 15, 2020 (18 Tevet 5780) has its Yahrzeit fall on December 28, 2026 and again on January 17, 2028 — but nowhere in Gregorian year 2027, due to the winter-boundary drift described above.

Interpreting your result

A real, disclosed edge case: because the Hebrew calendar's lunisolar drift is uneven near the Gregorian year boundary, some winter-month anniversaries occur twice within one Gregorian year and are skipped entirely in the next — not an error, a genuine feature of how the two calendars interact. A second disclosed edge case: someone who died in Adar I of a Hebrew leap year has more than one accepted convention for which Adar to observe in a following non-leap year (since Adar I doesn't exist that year) — this calculator doesn't resolve that dispute.

Recommendations
  • If your target year shows no result, try the adjacent year — the anniversary may have landed there instead due to the drift described in the note above.
Frequently asked questions
The annual Hebrew-calendar anniversary of a death, traditionally marked by lighting a 24-hour memorial candle and reciting Kaddish.
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