"The #winter moon has always struck me as having a #fairytale sort of beauty. In these days of #midwinter, for those of us in the #Northeast, the brightness of the #moon is even starker and more visible without the leaves on the tree branches. In this season of the #Jewishcalendar, post-#Hanukkah and pre-#TuBishvat, the long post-#solstice nights seem to invite dreaming and stories.

What #stories does #Jewish tradition tell about the moon?

In the #Talmud (Chullin 60b), there’s a tale about the moon and the #sun. The #story goes like this: Once, at the dawn of creation, the moon and the sun were equally bright. (It’s fun to try to imagine what that might have looked like.) The moon wasn’t happy about this sameness and complained to the Holy One, saying, “Is it possible for two kings to wear a single crown?” The moon seemed to imply that she should be made bigger.

The Holy One responded to this request by making the moon smaller..."

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/be-like-the-moon/

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Illustration from a previous Jewish Cat Calendar.

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PSA about Yom HaShoah, April 17-18.

(Sharing because I didn't know eiter)

#JewishCalendar#HolocaustRemembranceDay

Somebody was talking to me about the #MuslimCalendar, and it occurred to me that knowing the #JewishCalendar means I can calculate how the former cycles through the year.

The lunisolar Jewish Calendar has 7 leap months every 19 years, or 7 extra months every 235 months. It thus falls behind the pure-lunar Muslim Calendar at a unitless rate of 7/235 (on average). Thus, it takes 235/7 ≈ 33.6 years for the Muslim holidays to cycle through the solar year.