[Ansteorra] Happy New Year - Again!

[Ronda Jones via Ansteorra]

Thank you for sharing this very interesting history regarding God's chosen
people.  Blessed New Year to you,too.


On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 11:45 PM, Leota Manners via Ansteorra <
ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org> wrote:

> 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
> >
> > /Physikis et Astronomus/
> >
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