Meanwhile, why not notice how Sunday is stealing the limelight as we turn to March? The last four Sundays in March (10, 17, 24 and 31) are hosting in order: the start of Daylight Savings Time, St. Patrick's Day, Purim (these last two holidays are closely linked in calendar closeness and raucous spirit), and Easter. Easter in March? The Jewish calendar is celebrating its own Leap Year by repeating a month (Adar 2, starting on March II). As a result, while Easter is "early", Passover this year will end "late" - on the last day of April.
And while the solar Gregorian and the lunar Jewish calendars leap in different ways, in this decade they are linked digitally: from January through August beginning in 2020, the digits of the Jewish year add up to the last two digits of our secular calendar, as in this year: 5+7+ 8 + 4 = 24. After five years (5790 and 2030), that coincidence will disappear for a long time.
Did your research into calendars uncover the reason why we don't celebrate new years on the solstice? If it is solar coordinated (versus the lunar of Asia) new years should be around what is now Dec 21, or Christmas, rather than a week or two later. When did our calendar diverge from the solar cycle? (And I assume you discovered the 13-month calendar.)
Meanwhile, why not notice how Sunday is stealing the limelight as we turn to March? The last four Sundays in March (10, 17, 24 and 31) are hosting in order: the start of Daylight Savings Time, St. Patrick's Day, Purim (these last two holidays are closely linked in calendar closeness and raucous spirit), and Easter. Easter in March? The Jewish calendar is celebrating its own Leap Year by repeating a month (Adar 2, starting on March II). As a result, while Easter is "early", Passover this year will end "late" - on the last day of April.
And while the solar Gregorian and the lunar Jewish calendars leap in different ways, in this decade they are linked digitally: from January through August beginning in 2020, the digits of the Jewish year add up to the last two digits of our secular calendar, as in this year: 5+7+ 8 + 4 = 24. After five years (5790 and 2030), that coincidence will disappear for a long time.
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Did your research into calendars uncover the reason why we don't celebrate new years on the solstice? If it is solar coordinated (versus the lunar of Asia) new years should be around what is now Dec 21, or Christmas, rather than a week or two later. When did our calendar diverge from the solar cycle? (And I assume you discovered the 13-month calendar.)