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From: Russell Hendel <rhendel@saber.towson.edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:26:26 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: RE: Passover in the SpringTime

Just a short comment to Daniel Well's long posting in v33n2
in a thread discussing the Jewish calendar. Daniel asks

> Why, or rather I should say 'what' makes Pesach more 'reasonable' in the
> summer or fall, than say in the winter? Perhaps the technicality that it
> should fall before the vernal equinox? Surely the temperature outside or
> the secular month has little relevance to Pesach

There is a BIBLICAL commandment to have Passover fall out in the SPRING
TIME. This is explicitly stated in the 7th aliyah of REAY which is read
on the 3 festivals "Be involved in watching the Spring Time (so that )
you can make Passover for God (then) since God took you out of Egypt in
the Springtime"

This (having Pesach fall out on Passover) is one of the guiding
principles in making our calendar

Russell Jay Hendel; Phd ASA; rhendel@Towson.edu
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