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| The Hebrew calendar. | |||||||||||||||||||
| The calendar in the world is based on the cycle of the moon or the sun. | |||||||||||||||||||
| The Hebrew calendar is established around the moon cycle. | |||||||||||||||||||
| The moon fixed his round all 29 days, 12 hours, 44 min. and 3.3 sec. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Earth is on the same point forward the sun after 365 days, 5 hours, 48 min. and 46 sec. | |||||||||||||||||||
| The moon year contains 12 months that?s mean 354 days, and sun year is 365 days. | |||||||||||||||||||
| From here we see that a fixed date according to the sun year can't be identical in the moon year, the result is that events or holidays will be moved from one season to another. | |||||||||||||||||||
| The Hebrew calendar is based and gathering both of the calendars. | |||||||||||||||||||
| The Jewish holidays were determined in the bible days and they are related to the seasons. | |||||||||||||||||||
| From that reckoning we see that calculating according to 354 days in year will move the holiday until the other season, (The Moslems have this problem, their holidays are celebrated every year in another season). | |||||||||||||||||||
| To fix that problem permanently, every some years will be another moon month, the 13-month in the year. | |||||||||||||||||||
| A year with 13 months called leap year. | |||||||||||||||||||
| In the centuries BC, the Jew nation was concentrated in Israel and his religion center was the big Temple in Jerusalem. | |||||||||||||||||||
| In this place was the smart people from the nation that anxious to make the bills and sent massage about the time of the year. They made it with fire in the summit of the mountains. | |||||||||||||||||||
| In 70 AC the Roman rolled Israel, they fired Jerusalem and destroyed the big Temple avoiding the Jew of fulfilling commandments. | |||||||||||||||||||
| The forbidden of making fires for massages on holidays, found a solution in 359 AC by one of the smartest leader in the nation named Hillel the president. | |||||||||||||||||||
| The solution, permanent the leap years and make a situation of identity dates between moon year and sun year that make all 19 years. | |||||||||||||||||||
| From here we see that the Hebrew calendar is based on moon months but fixed to the sun year. | |||||||||||||||||||
| The seven days in the week their source is from the bible. | |||||||||||||||||||
| The year counting based on the bible as from earth establishment | |||||||||||||||||||
| To calculate the Hebrew year, you must add 3760 years to the regular calendar. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Example: 2000 years is 2000+3760=5760 Hebrew year. | |||||||||||||||||||
| The day distribution to 24 hours, 60 min. at hour and 60 sec. Its source is not a Jewish but from old Babylon and based on their astrology. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Writen by shalev july 2000 | |||||||||||||||||||
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