A Teacher’s Answer to “Wait, When’s Yud Shvat Again?”- A Calendar You Can See a Full Year At Once

Anyone who’s spent time in a Crown Heights classroom knows the drill: the wall calendar shows one month, someone asks about a date two months out, and everyone starts doing math in their head. Rabbi Sruli Mochkin, a teacher at Lubavitch Hebrew Academy, got tired of that math.

“You can’t really plan a year if you can only see one month of it at a time,” he said. “I wanted the whole year up on the wall at once, every English date, every Hebrew date, so I could actually plan around everything instead of getting caught off guard.”

So he built The Big Jewish Calendar: one giant wall calendar with the entire school year on a single page, English and Hebrew dates side by side. It’s not an app. It’s a real calendar you hang up and write on.

It comes dry-erase, with color-coded stickers included, so it can be personalized right on the wall. One color for birthdays, another for off days, another for whatever else needs tracking, all visible across the whole year instead of one month at a time.

Rabbi Mochkin built it for his own classroom first. Since then, other teachers looking for the same kind of full-year view have started asking about it too. It’s now available for schools to order in bulk for their staff, with a discount for larger orders.

“Once the whole year is actually in front of you, planning stops feeling like a scramble,” he said.

The Big Jewish Calendar is available now at Bigjewishcaledar.com