Marchesvan

Now in the month Marchesvan, which is part of our October and part of November, the winter coming on, they betook themselves home again with the flocks and the herds.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

I am in debt to my cousin, David Golinkin, who in his eulogy for my grandmother — 11 Marchesvan, 5750, November 9, 1989 — collected family reminiscences of Bub into a beautiful talk from which I drew several of these stories.

We Remember - Mattie Levi Rotenberg, 1897 - 1989 2010

They sowed the wheat and spelt in the month Tisri, and Marchesvan, and so onward.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

Baal were killed: and certainly it will be more probable that the unlocking of the heavens and the fall of the rains happened in that usual and ordinary season, the month Marchesvan, than any other part of the year.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

Marchesvan, or that in the month Nisan: that which makes to our purpose is, that rains were at those stated times; and for the rest of the year generally there was no rain.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

In the beginning therefore of those three years we believe Elijah shut up heaven upon the approach of that time wherein the rains were wont to fall in the month of Marchesvan, and opened heaven again the same month at the end of three years.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

In the month Nisan it rained; the rest of the year to Marchesvan it was fair and held up: when that month came the rains were expected; but

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

The lateward seed, or that which is hid and lieth long in the earth; "The wheat and the spelt which do not soon ripen, are sown in Marchesvan; the early seed, the barley, which soon ripens, is sown in Shebat and Adar."

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

"The Rabbins deliver: the former is in the month Marchesvan; the latter in the month Nisan."

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

Now, go back from Marchesvan, the month wherein the prophet locked up heaven, to the month Nisan preceding, and those six months between, they were also without rain, according to the ordinary course of the year and climate.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979