IYAR MISCELLANY “In the 480th year from the Exodus, in the 4th year in the month of ZIV, which is the 2nd month to the reign of King Solomon, he built a House to G-d.” (Melachim Alef 6:1) Kings count their years from Nisan, so ZIV is another name for Iyar. The 20th of Iyar is recorded in the Torah as the day the people of Israel finally left Har Sinai, where they had arrived almost a year earlier. They had arrived on Rosh Chodesh Sivan, in the third month out of Egypt. That is also the day that they “received” the Heavenly Clouds of Glory that would accompany then throughout their time in the Wilderness. A week earlier (22 Iyar), the miraculous well of Miriam started to supply the people with water, and a week before that (16 Iyar, some say 18) the MOHN began to fall. [The
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