Monday, January 22, 2024

Judaism and the calendar

DR. SARIT KATTAN GRIBETZ: Whoever Controls the Calendar, Controls Judaism (TheTorah.com) [Link updated.].
Calendrical disputes, which recurred frequently in ancient and medieval Jewish communities, created alternative dates for festivals such as Yom Kippur and Passover. Here, we look at four disputes and the different ways that communities navigated them.
For more on the Jewish calendar and the Pesher to Habakkuk, see here.

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