[Ansteorra] Happy New Year - Again!

[Leota Manners via Ansteorra]

Magister Galenus Ockhamnesis,
Is this a Jewish Texan or a Texas Jew? "shanah tovah y'all"
Have a blessed New Year

Shalom,
Leaota of Rutlanshire

On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Galen of Ockham, OP via Ansteorra <
ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org> wrote:

> Tonight (Sept 13) at sunset begins Anno Mundi 5776 in the Hebrew calendar
> (Jewish days start at sunset, probably based on the formula in Genesis 1
> "and the evening and the morning were the [Nth] day"). The Hebrew calendar
> is a solar/lunar calendar. Months in most calendar systems approximate the
> cycle of the moon, but since it takes 29 days, 12 hrs, 44 min, and 3 sec to
> go from new moon to new moon, you just can't fit even number of months in a
> year (ok, maybe with new math, but I'm not going there), so the basic
> calendar falls 11 days short of a year. To keep the lunar cycle and the
> solar cycle in sync, the Hebrew calendar uses a complex 19 year cycle of
> leap months inserting a full month every 2 or 3 years. This keeps the
> Hebrew calendar pretty close to being in sync, losing one day per 231 years
> against the Gregorian calendar.
>
> Traditions include blowing the ram's horn trumpet (shofar), eating apples
> and honey to symbolize the sweetness of the new year and wishing everyone
> "l'shanah tovah tikatevu" - "may you be inscribed [in the book of life] for
> a good year".Or maybe in Ansteorra we can get by with "shanah tovah y'all".
>
> May you all enjoy the fruits of this new year!
>
> --
> Magister Galenus Ockhamnesis xb
> Friar Galen of Ockham, MC, OP
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