By Yanki Tauber
 | The easiest thing to do would be to get a divorce and follow one path through life, but Jews are notorious for their refusal to accept the easier solution
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I read that our calendar steadily shifts from the solar cycle. The astronomic solar year is 365 days 5 hours 48 minutes 46 seconds. The calculation of the Jewish calendar established one and a half thousand years ago is based on the figure 365 days 5 hours 55 minutes 25 seconds. In the time passed this added up into an extra week! According to Halachah and Rashi, if the end of winter (Spring Equinox, March 21 in secular calendar) falls on or after 16th of Nissan, the 13th month should be added. Last year, Pesach was on April 24; if there were 12 months, Pesach would be still on March 25, later than the end of winter. So, the 13h month should have been added this year, not last year! The result was that the rain season in Israel began as early as Elul, which is considered a bad sign, even a curse, G-d forbid. Can the correction of the calendar become the first issue on which Jews of all wakes would work together? The calendar is our first mitzvah!
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This was very thought provoking and giving good insite. I also thought it was very beautifully written.
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Why you keep the Feast days acording to the moon, but the shabbath acording to the Gregorian calendar?
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Unfortunately, Alexandra, the current Hebrew luni-solar calendar has been "set in stone" by Hillel II in the fourth century of the common era.
When the existence of the Sanhedrin was threatened, he formally sanctified all the months and intercalated all the years until such a time that another (genuine) Sanhedrin will have reconvened.
The cornerstone of the Hebrew calendar as related to the solar year is that Passover MUST fall (or maybe just start) in the spring (between Vernal Equinox and Summer Solstice).
So as long as Passover will satisfy the "spring-time" requirement, chances are that the calender will remain unaltered.
Since the Passover progresses (overall) toward the Summer Solstice at the rate of approximately 9 days every 2000 years, chances are the End of Days will be here before it will start falling not in the springtime.
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The Aztec Sunstone is another complex timepiece. In that system, 52 year cycles predominate many of their measurements and calculations.
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The answer to that is that the Jews were the ones who never let go of the 7 day calendar, which they got from The Big Guy on Mt. Sinai. Early groups liked the idea of a day off and "coppied" the Jews. People tried to change it at least twice. In Rome, and again following the French Revolution, hoping to really "shake things up" around the world. But the 7 day week prevailed
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SO the short answer is the the Sabbath is not a Gregorian creation but is the true Jewish Calendar.
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This article is genius in its creativity
grounded in its research
knowledgeable and
a pleasure to read
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Thanks for sharing the short tale... and the explanations about the Jewish Calendar... Is the best one I have got so far... Congratulations.
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