The Hebrew calendar is a lunar calendar normalized to a solar year, there has to be periodically adjusted because the number of moons in a year doesn’t match the earth’s orbit around the sun. The moon will revolve around the earth 13 times in one year, if a year has 19 extra days. So how do you fit thirteen lunar cycles into a twelve month calendar? By changing the number of days in a month and in some years adding an extra day to one of the months. It would be far more logical to break the year up into 13 months of 28 days each, that gives you 364 days then add an extra holiday at the end of the last cycle, and every four years have a two day holiday. That way we wouldn’t always be guessing how many days in the month. It would always be 28 days except for the last month which would have one extra day unless it was a leap year.
Posted on: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 04:11:48 +0000
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