How many days are in a Jewish year?

Answer 1

In the Jewish calendar there are 354 days but in a leap year there are 383 days.

Just like the familiar western civil/business calendar does, the occasional introduction

of Leap Years adjusts the year to a long-term average of 3651/4 days.

Answer 2

This may sound odd or surprising, but in the Hebrew ritual calendar, different months

can have different lengths. (You may want to recall January-31, February-28, etc.) Also,

some months can be a day longer or shorter in different years.

In general, the months of the Hebrew ritual calendar sync closely to the moon's phases,

so the average of any long series of months will be 29.53 days per month. That's 4 weeks

and 1.53 days on the average.

Answer 3

The Jewish calendar usually consists of twelve lunar months. It keeps in step with the solar year by adding a thirteenth lunar leap-month seven times every nineteen years. The Gregorian calendar, which sticks to the solar year, ignores the lunar months and does not attempt to keep in step with them.