HebrewDate

A small wrapper around libhdate that should make it much easier to use.

API

new HebrewDate(options)

Where options are:

• date: Date - optional - The day to user. Defaults to new Date().
• isDiaspora: Boolean - optional - Should be calculated according to Israel (default) or diaspora.

Instance properties

• year: number - Returns the Hebrew year number, e.g. 5782.
• month: number - Returns the Hebrew month number, zero based (same as native JS Date object).

|Month number | Month name (English) | Month name (Hebrew) | |:-----------:|----------------------|--------------------:| | 0 | Tishri | תשרי | | 1 | Heshvan | חשוון | | 2 | Kislev | כסלו | | 3 | Tevet | טבת | | 4 | Shevat | שבט | | 5 | Adar |אדר (בשנה לא מעוברת) | | 6 | Nisan | ניסן | | 7 | Iyar | אייר | | 8 | Sivan | סיוון | | 9 | Tammuz | תמוז | | 10 | Av | אב | | 11 | Elul | אלול | | 12 | Adar I | 'אדר א | | 13 | Adar II | 'אדר ב |

• date: number - Returns the Hebrew numerical value of the day in the month.

• holiday: number | undefined - Returns the holiday in the Hebrew calendar, if any.

• holidayName: string | undefined - Returns the holiday name, in Hebrew, if any.

example:

const HebrewDate = require('hebrew-date')

// With specific date object
const date = new Date('2021-09-21');
const hdate = new HebrewDate({ date });
console.log(`September 21st, 2021 hebrew date is: ${hdate.date}, in month ${hdate.month}, in Year ${hdate.year}, and holiday ${hdate.holiday} - which is ${hdate.holidayName}`)

// Outputs
// September 21st, 2021 hebrew date is: 15, in month 0, in Year 5782, and holiday 5 - which is סוכות