The Real Equinox Rule

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Wheelof

Stars:

The Realquinox1


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Introduction

In recent months, I have been mostgratified by the positive reception I havereceived on these calendar presentations,

which are an attempt to simplify the grandthemes in my book Wheel of Stars.

In particular I have seen a good deal ofenthusiasm for the real Biblicalcalendar, as discussed in the basicThe 4 Calendar Laws and Philo andthe New Moon.

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Introduction

Recently also I have encountered folkswho seem to largely agree already withthese rules and the way I parse the

Biblical and historical data.They understand very well, for example,

that the Rabbinic calendar is a product ofthe exile, that the role of the stars hasbeen totally lost or at least greatlydownplayed in calling the seasons and avariety of other points of concordance that

I appreciate. 3


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Introduction

After a lengthy discussion in The 4Calendar Rules about astronomy inScripture, the wider historical record and

physics, two different ideologies aboutthe role of the equinox have emerged.

My position is that the new moonnearest the start of spring must alwaysbe counted as Abib.

Others though disagree, saying the NewMoon AFTER the start of spring is always

Abib. We will see who is right and why 5


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Introduction

What is at stake here? Basically, for methe issue is that the moedim were alwaysmeant to go along with key parts of the

harvest season in ancient Israel.This is about a time, place and people that

had no refrigeration, no artificialpreservatives and no geneticallymodified produce that would allowthem to extend their harvest times.Instead, they had to rely on Abba YHWHs

Torah to literally survive each year. 7


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Introduction

As a result, Abba YHWHs calendar wasset up so that, no matter what variationsexisted between the Hebrew and Solar

Year, the moedim would always markthe ideal time for each phase ofharvestingin ancient Israel.

What we moderns are able to do toextend or alter that natural timeline isquite irrelevant. The fact is Abba YHWHdesigned the growing season, what

ripened, and whenHe knows His job! 8


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Introduction

So what we need to do in order to seewhich equinox rule is correct is see howequinoxes were dealt with in Scripture and

Israels history.We will also see why, in spite of our

modern enhancements the originalancient method is superior and stillworks perfectly, totally setting aside ofour attempts to play Elohim. We beginby recapping our evidence of the lost role

of the stars according to Scripture 9


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The Lost Role of the StarsRestored!

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The fact is, the stars have beencommanded by Abba YHWH as being

part of His original calendar fromGenesis 1:14-19.

The role of the stars (or mazzaroth) was

further defined in the book of Job which isalso very ancient. Lets see this up close!

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Elohim said, 'Let there be lights in the vault

of heaven to divide day from night, and let

them indicate signs, seasons, days and

years. Let them be lights in the vault ofheaven to shine on the earth.' And so it was.

Elohim made the two great lights: the

greater light to govern the day, thesmaller light to govern the night, and the

stars. Elohim set them in the vault of

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the day and the night and to divide light

from darkness. Elohim saw that it was

good. Evening came and morning came: the

fourth day. (Genesis 1:14-19)

So the sun, moon and the stars govern

the day and the night, divide light from

darkness. Where then is this role forthe stars utilized in the calendar

schools of today?Now look at this

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As long as earth endures: seed-time and

harvest, cold and heat, summer and

winter, day and night will never cease.

(Genesis 8:22)

These terms seed-time and harvest and

summer and winter are known as

equinoxes and solstices today.In orderto track them properly, the role of the stars

must be taken into account! Lets now

see what the book o f Job says

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Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, or

loose the cords of Orion? Can you lead

forth the constellations in their season,

and guide the Bear constellation with hersatellites? Do you know the ordinances of

the heavens, or fix their rule over the earth?

(Job 38:31-33- Matara)

The Pleiades was anciently used to help

determine the time of spring.15


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Therefore, whether its constellation in its

season as some render it or

constellations in their season as I have it,

the point is the stars were being usedto determine the start of spring, the

start of the Hebrew calendar!

Other words in Tanakh, such as tekuwfaand teshuvahmean equinox or turns of

the year as Scripture defines it. For

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The heavens are telling of the glory of

Elohim; and their expanse is declaring the

work of His hands. Day to day pours forth

speech, and night to night revealsknowledge. There is no speech, nor are

there words; their voice is not heard. Their

line has gone out through all the earth, andtheir utterances to the end of the world. In

them He has placed a tent for the sun,

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of his chamber; it rejoices as a strong

man to run his course. Its rising is from

one end of the heavens, and its circuit

(tekuwfa) to the other end of them; andthere is nothing hidden from its heat.

(Psalm 19:1-6 NAU)

It is very interesting that the next line after

this, the perfect solar year, is the law of

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This strongly suggests that part of Abba

YHWHs perfect Torah is keeping His

feasts on time! And then theres this

[Samuel] used to go annually on circuit

(shana bshanavesaviv/ ) toBethel and Gilgal and Mizpah, and he

judged Israel in all these places.

(1 Samuel 7:16 NAU)

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The word savivliterally means to go

around in a circle, and the fact that

Samuel is said to do a yearly circle

strongly proves he knew that sameyearly circle was driven by the sun,

because he always returned to where

he started from, which does not happenin a lunar year!

And then theres the turns of the year

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You shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks, that

is, the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and

the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the

year(tekuw fa ha shana/ )-Exodus 34:22 NAU

There were two turns of the year, which

again relates to the equinoxes, in thiscase, the one in fall, for Sukkot. Here is

the other one, in spring

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Then the prophet came near to the king of

Israel and said to him, "Go, strengthen

yourself and observe and see what you

have to do; for at the turn of the year(teshuvah ha shana/ ) the king

of Aram will come up against you."

(1 Kings 20:22 NAU; see also: 1 Kings20:26, 2 Chronicles 24:23; 36:10)

And finally, Id like to return to Job 3822


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Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, or

loose the cords of Orion? Can you lead

forth the constellations in their season

( ), and guide the Bear constellationwith her satellites? Do you know the

ordinances of the heavens, or fix their rule

over the earth?(Job 38:31-33- Matara)

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This word eth() means seasonandis often a synonym for moedimor

appointed times/feasts that must coincide

with those seasons, such as here

Therefore, I will take back My grain at

harvest time and My new wine in its

season( ). I willalso take away My wool and My flax givento

cover her nakedness. And then I will

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uncover her lewdness in the sight of her

lovers, and no one will rescue her out of My

hand. (Hosea 2:9-10 NAU)

In addition, ethactually refers to the

seasons themselvesdirectlywhich the

moedim technically must be attached to in

order to berelevant. In other words, youcannot have Pesach without barley,

Sukkot without grapes, etc. Lets see

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If you walk in My statutes and keep My

commandments so as to carry them out,

then I shall give you rains in their season

) ), so that the land will yield itsproduce and the trees of the field will

bear their fruit. (Leviticus 26:3-4 NAU)

Ethclearly means the agricultural year,and this is far from the only example I

have to share with you

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He will give the rain for your land in its

season ( ), the early andlate rain,that you may gather in your

grain and your new wine and your oil.(Deuteronomy 11:14 NAU)

They all wait for You To give them their food

in due season( ).(Psalm 104:27 NAU)

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Therefore, since the stars bring in the eth

per Job 38:32

and the ethare either synonyms for the

moedim or the structure to which the

moedim are inextricably attached to the

ethin which they occur (i.e. you cant have

Pesach in summer, etc.)

it must be the case then that the stars

bring in the ethand the moed im!28


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The question then is: Since we know the

Scripture commands the stars to bring

in the Hebrew year, how exactly is this

done?

Well, with the right foundation now laid,

you are going to see that complete answer

with your own eyes.

The fact is, the stars role in the calendar

has survived, and it is coming up next!29


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Rule #1: How the Stars Set the Year!

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But perhaps the most important fact is this:

The barley ripens when the sun returns

to a particular point in space and

shines down on the earth at a particularangle! If you can predict spring, you

can predict barley without looking at it!

There also has to be a standard timinglinked to vernal equinox, because the

barley ripens over 3 weeks in different

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But there is a way to calculate the timing

of the ripening of barley through most of

Israel, and it has to do with finding the

right New Moon to count the year from

Observe and guard the month of Abib

and celebrate the Passover for Yahweh your

Elohim, because it was in the month of Abibthat Yahweh your Elohim brought you out of

Egypt by night. (Deut. 16:1 Matara)

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Again we must remember that Moshe was

a prince of Egypt with advanced

astronomical training that goes far

beyond merely looking at a sliverymoon near a barley field!

Egypt used the stars to tell them when to

plant and harvest, as did every otherculture around Israel, so if Israel didnt

know, they are stupidest people in the

Middle East. 34


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But the fact is, Israel did know how to

seed and harvest by the stars, as the

advanced astronomical language in the

Tanakh proves.

Also there is the testimony of two

historians descended from Hebrew priests

and kingsJosephus and Philowhowere eyewitnesses to the calendar that

both Yshua and the Pharisees used. Lets

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In the month of Nisanthe beginning of our

year, on the 14thday of the lunar month,

when the sun is in Aries, (for in this month

it was that we were delivered from bondageunder the Egyptians,) the law ordained that

we should every year slay that sacrifice

which I before told you we slew when wecame out of Egypt, and which was called the

Passover. (Josephus, Antiquities, 3:248)

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At first glance, the 14thday of the lunar

month of Nisan, when the sun is in Aries

seems a very precise astronomical

convergence of star, sun and moon data.

But Josephus is relating his astronomy

as it existed at the time of the Exodus

some 1500 years before his time and3400+ years from our time, not how the

stars are positioned today!

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In 128 BCE, the Greek astronomer

Hipparchus discovered what we now call

precession of the equinoxes.

Hipparchus figured out that every 72

years, a so-called fixed stars

position in the sky will shift a degree

backwards from where it started.So, after 2,160 years (72 x 30), that star

has precessed 30 degrees.

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Moses puts down the beginning of the

vernal equinox as the 1stmonth of the

yearfor it is through the bounty of nature

that the seeds which are sown to producethe necessary food of mankind are brought

to perfection. (Philo, On Moses, 2:222)

This phrase beginning of the vernalequinox is a huge and critical clue for

piecing the system together.

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Philo recognizes the importance of dating

the start of the Hebrew Solar Year at the

beginning of spring, because this will

give a fixed point in time completelyindependent of the stars precessing

backwards over time. It will never go out

of date! Therefore beginning of vernalequinox is understood as being the same

as the when the sun begins to be in Aries.

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Then, going back to Josephus, we see the

importance of the 14thday of that lunar

month, which is the time of the full

moon.

Putting it all together it means this: The

New Moon nearest VE is Abib and the

first full moon of Aries is Passover!This proves, stars, sun and moon cycles

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But an important question and this point

might be: How do we know the ancient

Hebrews were keeping these kinds of

detailed records?

To answer this question, what follows are

quotes from across the spectrum of

Jewish tradition, from Scripture, Dead SeaScrolls, Talmud and important modern

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Then taking [Abraham] outside, [YHWH]

said, 'Look up at the sky and count

(saphar)the stars if you can. Just so will

your descendants be,' he told him.

(Genesis 15:5 NJB)

Saphar/seferis the same word/root for

writing, scroll, or book, so Abraham isliterally commanded to record the stars for

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Yahweh, Builder of Jerusalem! He gathers

together the exiles of Israel, healing the

broken-hearted and binding up their

wounds; He counts out the number of thestars, and gives each one of them a

name. Our Lord is great, all-powerful, his

wisdom beyond all telling.(Psalm 147:2-5 NJB)

Theres way more where these came from!46


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The chief of the Beth Din then said: "It (the

new moon) is consecrated," and all the

people repeated after him: "It is

consecrated; it is consecrated." Whetherthe new moon was seen at its proper

time (after twenty-nine days) or not, they

used to consecrate it. R. Elazar b. Zadoksaid: If it had not been seen at its proper

time it was not consecrated, because it had

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already been consecrated in heaven (i.e., of

itself). R. Gamaliel had on a tablet, and on a

wall of his upper room, illustrations of the

various phases of the moon, which heused to show to the common people, saying:

"Did you see the moon like this figure or like

this?"Rodkinson Mishnah,

Rosh Hashanna, 2:4-548


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On the 4thday of the week of the sons of

Gamul in the first month of the first year. On

the 5thday in the week of Jedaiah

corresponding to the 29thday of the lunarmonth, which falls on the 30thday of the

solar month.-Mishmarot A (4Q320), as

translated by Geza Vermes, The CompleteDead Sea Scrolls in English, p. 336

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IVand on 13 and 14 Pisces; and on 15

and 16 Aries; on 17 and 18 Taurus; on 19

and 20 and 21 Gemini; on 22 and 23

Cancer; on 24 and 25 Leo; on 26, 27 and 28

Virgo; on 29 and 30 LibraTishri. On 1 and

2 Scorpio4Q318, The Complete Dead SeaScrolls in English, p. 361

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On the 5thday of the (solar) month, 12

fourteenths of the moons surface was

covered and thus it enters the day. On the

6thday, 13 fourteenths of the moon arecovered and thus it enters the day. On the

7thday of it, 14 fourteenths of its surface is

covered and thus it enters the day.- 4Q317,The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English,

p. 360.

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This is just a very tiny sampling showing

the extent of which ancient Hebrews

recorded stellar, solar and lunar data while

also tracking the Moedim. Not only wouldthe idea of Hebrews not keeping these

lists be un-historical, it would also make

them, as I said before, the mostprimitive civilization in the history of

the Middle East! So heres our rule

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Rule #1: The New Moon

nearest the start of spring(Vernal Equinox) is always Abib!

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Another way to put the same rule is: The

Full Moon that happens first, within 30

days on or after Vernal Equinox, must

be Passover.This is because Passover can never

take place prior to VE day or the start of

spring, but my research has shown thateven if the full moon precedes VE by a few

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Relating these facts to Josephus

description, the first constellation of spring

(then Aries, now Pisces), anchors for us a

time roughly between March 21stand April19thin our current calendar.

The first full moon that happens during this

timeeven on VE day itselfis Pesach.Josephus again is thinking about Exodus,

when 0 degree Aries and VE were one

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The Gezer Calendar

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The picture you just saw was a large scale

replica done for clarity of reading.

The original however, though smaller and

harder to read, is dated to the 10thcentury BCE and contains some of the

oldest calendar information ever

recovered from ancient Israel!It was found in the ancient Canaanite city

of Gezer (20 miles west of Jerusalem) and

is inscribed in Paleo-Hebrew script.57

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Dating from the time of David and

Solomon, it reckons civil time from fall to

fall (Tishri-Elul) as we know the southern

kingdom of Judah would do, starting underDavids grandson, Rehoboam.

It is also signed by a man named Abijah

who might be simply its scribe or couldrefer to King Abijah, the son of Rehoboam

himself (2 Chronicles 12:16). Heres what

th is th is key p iece of evidence said...58

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Two months gathering (September,

October).

Two months planting (November,

December).

Two months late sowing (January,

February).

One month cutting flax (March).

One month reaping barley (April).

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One month reaping and measuring grain

(May).

Two months pruning (June, July).

One month summer fruit (August).

Obviously the Paleo-Hebrew isnt naming

our Gregorian monthsthey were put in ()

by the scholars translating it. Nevertheless

the Gregorian is accurate because

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it is based on a solar year, and my

point is, so was the ancient Hebrew

calendarwhen all its mechanisms are

properly understood.In order for the calendar though to work, it

had to deal with two challenges each and

every year.First, the season for the ripeness of the

barley be linked to the right month for its

usage at Passover.61

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Choose your Abib New Moon too early,

and your barley simply wont be ready to

wave on the 16th.

I know some of you though will say, Butthat doesnt matterthere is no

priesthood or Temple to fulfill the

mandate, but I say, irrelevant becauseof what the Scripture itself indicates

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Yahweh spoke to Moses and said: 'Speak

to the Israelites and say: "When you enter

the country which I am giving you and

reap the harvest there, you will bring thepriest the first sheaf of your harvest, and

he will present it to Yahweh with the

gesture of offering, for you to beacceptable. The priest will make this

offering on the day after the Sabbath, and

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on the same day as you make this

offering, you will offer Yahweh an

unblemished lamb one year old as a burnt

offering. The cereal offering for that day willbe two-tenths of wheaten flour mixed with

oil, as food burnt as a smell pleasing to

Yahweh. The libation will be a quarter of ahin of wine.You will eat no bread, roasted

ears of wheat or fresh produce before

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this day, before making the offering to

your God. This is a perpetual law for all

your descendants, wherever you live.

(Leviticus 23:9-14 NJB)So basically, once the clock starts forward

as Israel enters Canaan, it keeps the

ritual described 100% intact andunchangeable. More than that, the ritual

cannot ever be altered regardless as to

where the Israelites live.65

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So that means a double layer of

complexity for the start of each Hebrew

year.

Its not enough to hit a new moon thatallows you to wave the sheaf during

Passover

you also have to hit a time AFTER thatnew moon, where 64 days later your

grain harvest is completed! Whats

right for barley may not be for grain.67

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In other words, picking the New Moon that

is always after the start of spring/VE may

work some or even most years.

but it will also fail quite often to meetthese multi-level agricultural requirements,

that the ethor seasons mentioned in Job

and elsewhere always match up withtheir intended moedim, based on the

original agricultural cycle in ancient

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This is also the heart of the Gezer

Calendars design. It has allotted one

month of reaping barley, what we call in

our calendar April.This is because the barley is not picked at

Abib New Moon, which can be as early as

about March 7th.Instead its from the earliest time you could

begin the harvest, 2+ weeks later, late

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This small chart tell us a lot, as it shows

that nothing has changed for Israels

harvesting timings in more than 3,000

years! The proof of its accuracy is thatthis pattern holds in Israel, year after

year. And notice the calculations for the

end of the harvest are just as intricate asthose at the start in the spring. This goes

back to the Torahs own terminology

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You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, of

the first fruits of the wheat harvest; and the

Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the

year. (Exodus 34:22 JPS 1985)Again, turn of the year means equinoxes,

in this case the one in fall.

But I also want to focus on this other namefor Sukkot, Feast of Ingatheringnow

what exactly does that term really mean?73

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, 648 :Ex 2316 ingathering fromthreshing-floor & winepress before

beginning of rainy season, Ex 23163422.

(pg 23)-Holladay Hebrew and AramaicLexicon.

So this is not just around the time of the

start of fall, but specifically early fall,before the rainy season begins,

referring also to the only time of year

when the most could be gathered.74

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This means we have to have our Feast

of Ingathering only when the vast

majority and variety of grains and fruit

was either peaking in harvest season orending altogether.

The rainy season in turn will begin in late

October in Israel, so Sukkot cant touchthat time of year. But if you have an April

17thAbib NM, you will also have a

Sukkot that reaches into November!75

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Heres the problem with that

The rainy season from October to May

may be divided into three parts, the

former, the winter, and the latter rains,and they are often referred to under

these names in the Old Testament. The

"former rains" are the showers ofOctober and the first part of November.

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the winter grain may be sown before theheavy continuous rains set in.

ISBE Bible Encyclopedia

So Sukkot must be at a full moon that

takes all these things into the account:

Fixed to the season of the fall equinox (will

show later), after the harvest of most ofthe fruits has peaked or is over, and be

before the start of the former or early

rains.77

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These requirements then lead us to thesecond and final harvest for Israel, both

then and now.

This is a precise and exclusive time ofyear for the rest of the produce to get

picked and stored, again and we saw, both

before the rains and before the onset ofwinter. Now lets see our chart once

again and how all this lines up in terms

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As you can see, the harvest is peakingfor grapes, figs, pomegranates and

olives specifically in the September-

October time frameonly olives can stillbe harvested a little into November.

This time is also not far from when

sesame (July), flax (July) and millet (July-August) would have been stored, but wait

until November and its all over.80

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Your grapes will be done, so where is yournew wine for Sukkot? Again, never mind

that modern grapes may last into

November, thats not the point.The point is the grapes that Abba YHWH

originally intended you to use for

Sukkot will be gone!So if your Sukkot occasionally touches

November, its just as bad as when you

Passover touches May.81

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Now it simply comes down to the mathand what first century eyewitnesses to the

Hebrew calendar have to say about how it

worked.Every once in a while, 2026 will be the

next time this happens, you will have

your new moon after VE around April17th. When that happens, your Passover

will begin May 1stand throw off the

entire year.82

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An Abib Full Moon hitting May 1stwill havethat month end May 16th.

29 days later, for the 2ndmonth of Iyar, will

bring you to June 14th, with Sivan startingJune 15th.

Keep adding: 30 days for Sivan, 29 days

for Tammuz, 30 days for Ab, 29 days forElul, and your fall feasts now begin with

your Tishri 1 on October 11th, with

Sukkot hitting on the 25th

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Your grapes, figs and pomegranates haveall been harvested by the end of

September or into the first third of October.

After that time, only the olives might stillremain to be harvested.

So whats the point of a harvest

festival, or an ingathering feast if thereis almost nothing left to harvest or

ingather?85


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That to me is the central problem with thesupposed new moon after Vernal Equinox

is always Abib rule.

On the surface, it appears to work manyyears in a row.

But scrutinize its utility over decades

and centuries and the practice veryquickly falls apart and becomes

inaccurate and chaotic. One time off, is

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On the fourth day [YHWH] adorned theheaven with the sun, the moon, and the

other stars; and appointed them their

motions and courses, that the changes ofthe seasons might be clearly signified.

(Josephus, Antiquities, 1:31)

So says Josephusbut his predecessorPhilo is even more specific and

comprehensive on this matter, tying feasts

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And the sun, the ruler of the day, makingtwo equinoxes every year, both in spring

and autumn. The spring equinox in the

constellation of Aries, and the autumnalone in Libra, gives the most evident

demonstration possible of the divine

dignity of the number seven. For each ofthe equinoxes takes place in the seventh

month, at which time men are expressly

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hard berries, of which there are greatnumbers, to the autumnal one. (Philo, On

Creation 1:116)

Now wheat and barley are among thethings which are very necessary; as,

likewise, are all the other species of food,

without which it is impossible to live. But oil,and wine, and almonds are not among

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them to the very extremity of old age,extending their life over a number of years.

Accordingly, in this month, about the 14th

day of the month, when the orb of themoon is usually about to become full, the

public universal feast of the passover is

celebrated, which in the Chaldaic languageis called pascha; at which festival not only

do private individuals bring victims to the

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altar and the priests sacrifice them, but also,by a particular ordinance of this law, the

whole nation is consecrated and officiates in

offering sacrifice; every separate individualon this occasion bringing forward and

offering up with his own hands the sacrifice

due on his own behalf.(On Moses, 2:223-224)

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The last of all the annual festivals is thatwhich is called the feast of tabernacles,

which is fixed for the season of the

autumnal equinox. And by this festival thelawgiver teaches two lessons, both that it is

necessary to honor equality, the first

principle and beginning of justice, theprinciple akin to unshadowed light; and that

it is becoming also, after witnessing

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the perfection of all the fruits of the year,to give thanks to that Being who has

made them perfectAgain, the beginning

of this festival is appointed for thefifteenth day of the month, on account of

the reason which has already been

mentioned respecting the spring season,also that the world may be full, not by day

only but also by night, of the most beautiful

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light, the sun and moon on their risingopposite to one another with uninterrupted

light, without any darkness interposing itself

between so as to divide them. And after thefestival has lasted seven days, he adds

an eighth as a seal, calling it a kind of

crowning feast, not only as it would seemto this festival, but also to all the feasts

of the year which we have enumerated;

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And besides the stars above mentioned theband of the Pleiades is also made up of

seven stars, the rising and occultation of

which are the causes of great benefits toall men. For when they set, the furrows

are ploughed up for the purpose of

sowing; and when they are about to rise,they bring glad tidings of harvest; and

after they have arisen, they awaken the

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it is absolutely critical that Abba YHWHpick a system that guarantees prosperity

for the vast majority of Israel every year.

If not, then the Scripture is broken.

If not, then Abba YHWH does not care if

His treasured possession has

enough food or if they are harvesting andcelebrating on time or not.

If not, then this Scripture makes no

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Today, I call heaven and earth to witnessagainst you: I am offering you life or death,

blessing or curse. Choose life, then, so

that you and your descendants may live,in the love of Yahweh your God, obeying

his voice, holding fast to him; for in this

your life consists, and on this depends thelength of time that you stay in the country

which Yahweh swore to your ancestors

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Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that he wouldgive them. (Deuteronomy 30:19-20 NJB)

Abba YHWH then chooses life

He therefore begs Israel to also chooselife through obedience to His Torah. How

then can that same Torah that promises

life for keeping it, create death whenIsrael keeps it exactly as written?

Therefore, the rule must be, new moon

nearest VE is always Abib!103

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abr hdwtTodah Rabbaheace and blessings

Andrew Gabriel Roth

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