[Sca-cooks] festivals and calenders, wasBread recipe request (OOP)

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

On 13 Oct 2003, at 10:28, Kirsten Houseknecht wrote:

> 2. yes, weird things happen to lunar calenders when you "fix" the dates to a
> solar year... also recall that the order of some months has changed, and a few
> months added and then the days standardized.......

The Jewish calendar is a lunar-solar calendar; ie., lunar months adjusted to 
fit a solar year.  This is why Passover is always in the Spring.  Of course, 
you have to stick in a leap month, every now and then...


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