Molad Times

This is more because of lack of being israel than the lack of knowing the time Reply

There are two days Rosh Chodesh in Israel Reply

She was referring to 2 days of Yom Tov Reply

Their chart does say June 10 Reply

There's 18 chalakim in a minute, so after 17 comes 0, and one more minute is added to the minutes.

It's similar to our clocks. Our clocks have 60 seconds in a minute but the clock will never say "60". 59 is the last displayed second, and after that it goes to "0", and another minute gets added to the minutes.

There's an interesting way to notice how the chalakim add up to a minute. Before October 17, 2020, all the minutes are even (since an even number of minutes (44) are being added each month to an even number) but starting from October 17th, all the minutes are odd. That's because the chalakim added up to 18 and equaled a whole minute, so that offsets all the even numbers into odd numbers. And now every month an even number of minutes (44) are added to the odd numbers, so they stay odd. Do you know what I mean? Reply

A chelek is 3 and one third seconds so there are 18 chalakim in a minute. It increases in the chelek column by one chelek every month. Every 18 months it comes to an even minute, no chalakim Reply

There is something huge about this but I can't quite figure it out yet. I wonder how many Molad minutes all these Chalakim's add up to and did it start when Israel bannered the Star Of David (26) 70ish years ago? October 17th is a special date for my family and I am just trying to put all the Holy pieces to the Spiritual puzzle together. Thank you! Reply

The first chalakim count started on 31/12/1899 that is the date Psalms 1 starts. Psalms 48 was year 1948, Psalms 108 was year 2008, Psalms 120 is year 5780 or 2020, and so forth.... Reply

I just looked up where you're from and strangely enough the city you live in looks like the mouth of His face(Settlements of Judea as facial features, the head being outlined by the landmark boundary lines of the Westbank) That face, looking aerial view on a map, seems like it is set against itself toward the land of Israel , the Holy Royal Kingdom of Hashem. Reply

Oh wait counting the first chelek at the start of this chart will get you to 14 when the even time passes over to odd times adding 44 mintues to each chalakim. That day is October 17th 2020! Reply

A helek is 3.33 seconds or 1/18 minute. So that's why the Chelek counts to 17 then the next new moon the chelek is zero, then the following Molad (10/17/20) the Chelek count restarts. Intriguingly fascinating!!! Reply

If you have the exact time of a molad, you can find the next molad by adding 29.5305941358 days, over and over. The exact Molad for Sivan 5776 was 42526.4888888889 (using spreadsheet days, where 1 is 31/12/1899). Reply

Copy and paste the following lines into the first cell in excel:
Year 5780
month 1
# of months =INT(B1/19)*235 + (INT(((MOD(B1 -1,19) + 1)+11)*(12+(7/19)))-136)+B2-1

Day = MOD(4 + B3 + INT((INT(14 + 12 * B3 + ((22 + 44 * B3 + INT((12 + B3)/18)))/60))/24) - 1,7) + 1
Hour = MOD(INT(14 + 12 * B3 + INT((22 + 44 * B3 + INT((12 + B3)/18)))/60), 24)
Minute = MOD(INT(22 + 44 * B3 + (12 + B3)/18), 60)
Chelek = MOD((12 + B3),18) Reply

OK, here's a more spelled out code (and no bugs I hope!)

This is in Python. You can easily adapt this to any other language. (In python, the "%" sign means modulate, like 17 % 4. In Excel or Visual Basic, it would be MOD(17, 4).)

To make sure it comes out right in the comment field, I'm going to separate each line with an empty line so if you see two lines one right after another then they're supposed to be on the same line.

I'm going to write out the code first and then I'll explain it.

#START CODE:

Year = 5780

Month = 1


Total_Months = int((Year + 10) * (12+7.0/19) - 136) + Month - 1


Day = int(1 + (23 + (11 + 6.0/18)/60)/24 + Total_Months * (1+((12+(44 + 1.0/18)/60)/24))) % 7

Hour = int(23 + (11+6.0/18)/60 + Total_Months *(12+(44+1.0/18)/60)) % 24

Minute = int(11 + 6.0/18 + Total_Months * (44 + 1.0/18)) % 60

Chelek = int(6 + Total_Months) % 18


print(Day, Hour, Minute, Chelek)

#END OF CODE

I'm running out of allowable characters so I'll have to explain in the next comm Reply

In my microsoft excel, 31/12/1899 is 0. 01/01/1900 is 1. Reply

I'm sorry, the Excel formulas did not come out right in the comment field. And besides, there are at least 2 mistakes in the code. Please see my comment where I wrote out the code in Python. Reply

Thank you so much. I am correcting my talk to be accurate. Reply

actually if the molad of a Tuesday occurs after 3:11 AM in a twelve month year the day of Rosh HaShana is pushed to Thursday. ( Called the postponement of GaTRaD.) Reply

The molad has moved over the centuries. The time announced as the molad corresponds to a certain longitude which is now in Afghanistan Reply

The molad is an average value. Conceptually it represents the new moon but more often than not it can be hours off the new moon. Reply

The time between astronomical new moons is not exactly the same each month. Reply

The molad approximates the synodic month . Youre describing the sidereal month where the moon completes its orbit relative to a fixed position to the stars Reply

This is not correct. The molad time we use is an average number. A good example is the past Aug '17 eclipse which is the astronomical molad which occurred 12 hours before our molad ( Yes , I've taken time zones into account) Reply

But the new moon and the molad time are not supposed to be the same thing. The molad is supposed to be some time after the new moon, enough time to actually see the first sliver of the moon. Reply