In a regular (kesidran) year Kislev has 30 days, but because of the Rosh Hashanah postponement rules, in some years it can lose a day to make the year a "short" (chaser) year. Kislev is a month which occurs in November–December on the Gregorian calendar and is sometimes known as the month of dreams.
In Jewish Rabbinic literature, the month of Kislev is believed to correspond to the Tribe of Benjamin.[2]
Holidays
25 Kislev – 2 Tevet – Hanukkah – ends 3 Tevet if Kislev is short
In Jewish history and tradition
1 Kislev (1977) – Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson miraculously recovered from a devastating heart attack.
20 Kislev (c. 457 BCE) – Ezra addresses a three-day assemblage of Jews in Jerusalem, telling them to adhere to the Torah and to dissolve their interfaith marriages.
In the story of Xenogears, Kislev is the name of a country, named after the Hebrew month.
In the Warhammer universe, Kislev is both the name for a city near the chaos wastes and the country in which it resides. Kislev is modelled after a combination of 16th century Russia and Poland-Lithuania.
In the Dragonlance universe, Kislev (or Chislev) represents the godly force of instinct.
^"Now the fifteenth day of the month Kislev, in the hundred forty and fifth year, they set up the abomination of desolation upon the altar, and builded idol altars throughout the cities of Judah on every side." (1 Maccabees 1:54)
