Cheshvan

Cheshvan is the second month of the Hebrew calendar, also sometimes called Mar-Cheshvan or "bitter Cheshvan" because there are no holidays during this month.

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and in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul—that is, the eighth month—the House was completed according to all its details and all its specifications. It took him seven years to build it.

In the month of Bul. This is [the month of] Mar Cheshvan; [when] the grass in the field decays, and cattle is given fodder from what is stored, from the expression “and he gave fodder [ויבל] to the donkeys.”

Rashi on I Kings 6:38:1

... ….R’ Chanina said - on the twenty-fifth of Kislev the work of the tabernacle was completed, but it was left folded up until Nisan, as it is written "On the day of the first month, on the first of the month, you shall set up the Mishkan of the Tent of Meeting.” (Shemot 40:2) Israel were murmuring against Moshe saying ‘why wasn’t it erected immediately, maybe some flaw happened to it?’ The Holy One intended to mingle the joy of the tabernacle with the month in which Yitzchak was born, as it says “…knead and make cakes,” (Bereshit 18:6) and they said to him “…At the appointed time…

Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 184:2

MISHNAH: On the first of Tishre is New Year for years, and remission of debts, and Jubilee periods, and for planting, and vegetables On the first of Shevaṭ is New Year for trees following the House of Shammai; the House of Hillel say, on the fifteenth of it. HALAKHAH: From where years? One verse says, the festival of gathering at the end of the year, and another verse says, the festival of gathering at the turn of the year. Which month contains a festival, and a turning point, and the year starts from it? Which one is this? It is Tishre…

Jerusalem Talmud Rosh Hashanah 1:2:1-3

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