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The federal eviction moratorium is set to expire at the end of this month. Efforts are being stepped up to distribute $46 billion in emergency rental aid and to head off eviction cases before they end up in court. NPR's Pam Fessler reports.
PAM FESSLER, BYLINE: There's nothing simple about trying to avoid eviction. Shelley Miller with the Alexandria Eviction Prevention Partnership in Northern Virginia knows that all too well.
SHELLEY MILLER: It's been a rough go, and nobody was prepared for this on any level, any front.
FESSLER: She and colleagues at local nonprofits have been helping a steady stream of tenants. Some are in more dire need than others. One man arrived at their outreach clinic last week with an envelope stuffed with papers, including a court notice saying he was about to be evicted the following day.
MILLER: I'm going to email the landlord right now to get the lease and the ledger, the updated one.
FESSLER: It turns out the man's application for emergency rental assistance was incomplete. He owes $10,000 in rent. He also hadn't filled out a necessary form declaring his eligibility for the eviction moratorium. Miller emails a copy to the local sheriff to head him off.
MILLER: So we'll let you know if we need anything else, but I'm hoping we'll be good to go.
FESSLER: We've agreed not to use clients' names because of the sensitivity of their cases. Most who come to this clinic lost work during the pandemic, and now with the economy picking up, many can't find child care. This eviction prevention program tries to stay ahead of the curve, but people are very confused. The application forms are complicated and, in Virginia, only available online and in English. Tenants don't trust landlords and vice versa.
DANIEN JOHNSON: We get a lot of people that just can't do anything.
FESSLER: Danien Johnson is with a social service agency called ALIVE!
JOHNSON: They don't want to answer the phone. The landlord may even be calling them to try to help them.
FESSLER: So her group formed this partnership last year to link tenants, landlords and government agencies before events spiral out of control. Sharon Thames is with Morgan Properties, which has 3,000 apartments in Alexandria. Her company's been working closely with the partnership and the city, hosting regular outreach clinics for tenants struggling to pay rent.
SHARON THAMES: It's not in anyone's best interest to have vacant housing. We also want to help the residents.
FESSLER: They also want to collect their rent and avoid court proceedings, which can be messy. But such alliances are rare. The Biden administration, which is worried about a flood of evictions once the moratorium ends, is encouraging communities to adopt similar efforts. At a recent White House summit, officials touted a Philadelphia law that requires landlords to seek rental assistance and mediation with tenants before they go to court. Biden senior adviser Gene Sperling says the country is in a race with time with emergency rental aid only trickling out the door.
GENE SPERLING: We are asking our states and local governments to do everything they can to fill that void in a hurry. Some are ramping up admirably. Some are lagging. But we all have to do better.
FESSLER: Housing advocates say the next few weeks are crucial. A recent Urban Institute survey found most tenants and almost half of landlords don't even know the aid's available, both now and after the moratorium ends.
MILLER: (Speaking Spanish).
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: (Speaking Spanish).
FESSLER: Miller says as word spreads, her partnership is starting to see more tenants before they get formal eviction notices. But most cases are still too close for comfort. The day I'm there, a mother of two small children arrives, worried she won't get her rental assistance on time. They show her an app she can use to see the status of her application. When she logs in, she gets a big surprise.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: (Speaking Spanish).
MILLER: Yeah.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: (Speaking Spanish).
FESSLER: Her aid was just approved.
MILLER: That's why she's super excited (laughter).
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: (Speaking Spanish).
FESSLER: More than $7,000 in back rent has been paid, and she has a $2,800 credit for the next two months.
MILLER: (Speaking Spanish).
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: (Speaking Spanish).
FESSLER: With tears in her eyes, the woman hugs Miller and a colleague. Finally, she says, she can sleep. But Miller fears such victories will be temporary, especially when the moratorium ends.
MILLER: I think we're going to be in a world of hurt.
FESSLER: She says many people are still living on the edge, and good, affordable housing is harder than ever to find.
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Federal health officials planning to get coronavirus shots to nursing homes
WASHINGTON - Federal health officials have unveiled a plan to get yet-to-be-approved coronavirus vaccines to nursing home residents free of charge, enlisting two national pharmacy chains to help.
Such a vaccine is not yet available. The distribution program is contingent on the Food and Drug Administration authorizing a vaccine, which does not appear to be imminent. While one nursing home industry group endorsed the administration's effort, another one was guarded in its reaction.
Under the voluntary program, trained staff from CVS and Walgreens would deliver the vaccines to each nursing home and administer shots. Assisted-living facilities and residential group homes can also participate. Nursing home staffers can be vaccinated, too, if they have not already received their shots. Needles, syringes and other necessary equipment will be included.
The idea, announced on Friday, is to give hard-pressed states an all-inclusive system for vaccinating their most vulnerable residents, said Paul Mango, a senior policy adviser at the Department of Health and Human Services. "We are trying to eliminate all potential barriers to getting folks safe and effective vaccines," Mango said.
The nation has 15,000-16,000 nursing homes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There may be another 20,000-45,000 assisted living facilities and similar kinds of settings for elderly and disabled people.
COVID-19 patients moved to nursing home, 12 resident deaths reported
People in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities account for less than 1% of the U.S. population, but they represent about 40% of the deaths from COVID-19, with more than 83,600 fatalities logged by the COVID Tracking Project.
The Trump administration's initial attempts to promote coronavirus testing in nursing homes and to ensure sufficient supplies of protective gear were hampered by missteps and led to widespread complaints from nursing home operators and advocates for older people. The vaccine program seems designed to get ahead of problems at a time when President Donald Trump is battling to hang on to support from older voters in his reelection campaign.
Earlier this month, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine recommended that the initial, limited doses of vaccine should go to first responders and high-risk health care workers. Those next in line should include older residents of nursing homes, the National Academies said, noting that who gets the shots will depend on age guidelines determined by the data on vaccine safety and efficacy.
There are many unanswered questions about the vaccines now undergoing clinical trials, including how well they will work to prevent infection. It's also not known whether they will be equally protective for older adults. But COVID-19 vaccine studies are recruiting people over 65 and even into their 80s because it will be crucial to find out.
Nonetheless, the largest nursing home industry group applauded the administration's action.
"We're recommending that our members participate in this program, sign up and get everything ready to go," said Dr. David Gifford, chief medical officer for the American Health Care Association. "Not to do that would be unfair to residents and staff."
Planning now will save time, Gifford said.
A smaller group, representing nonprofit homes, was more reserved.
"It's heartening to see that the administration's planning has begun," Katie Smith Sloan, president of LeadingAge, said in a statement. "The vaccine is still months away, so there is time to get this right.
"We look forward to learning more about how it will roll out."
The vaccination plan for nursing homes has been set up under Operation Warp Speed, a White House-backed initiative to quickly produce and distribute hundreds of millions of doses of approved vaccines, enough for every American. The effort involves HHS and the Defense Department, as well as drugmakers and other private companies.
Mango said he anticipates that if a vaccine is approved this year, initial supplies will be limited. Availability will improve markedly in the first three months of 2021, he said.
HHS is asking nursing homes to sign up for the program, but the allocation of vaccines will be done through state and territorial governments.
Nursing homes and long-term care facilities will not be charged. CVS and Walgreens will be reimbursed at standard Medicare rates for administering the shots, officials said.
The use of retail chain pharmacies has prompted some concerns, because nursing homes typically deal with specialized pharmacies and not the big drugstores catering to consumers.
Michael Wasserman, a geriatrician and past president of the California Association of Long Term Care Medicine, said chain retail pharmacies "don't necessarily have any clue what it takes to deliver pharmaceuticals to nursing homes. There are long-term care pharmacies that do this all the time."
Mango said the plan would accommodate nursing homes that want to continue to work with specialized pharmacies.
HHS Secretary Alex Azar said the program will "provide convenient and free vaccination to residents of nursing homes across America."


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Middle Market Firms Surging in Leading Industry SectorsLatest Middle Market Power Index from American Express and Dun & Bradstreet Shows Significant Growth in Number of Firms, Revenue and Employment Since 2011
New York, September 8, 2016 — The growth of U.S. middle market firms (companies between $10 million and $1 billion in revenues) is outpacing the national average, with an 87% increase in number of firms, a 103% surge in employment, and a 100% rise in revenue since 2011, according to the latest Middle Market Power Index: A Detailed Look at Top Industries from American Express (NYSE: AXP) and Dun & Bradstreet (NYSE: DNB).
An industry sector analysis of this middle market growth can help uncover larger economic trends, which have implications for workforce development and economic investments. Within the sectors that include most middle market firms – manufacturing (18%), wholesale trade (17%), and business services (11%) – several industry subcategories are fueling the growth in number of firms since 2011:
- Business services – Legal services (284%)
- Manufacturing – Industrial, commercial, or computer equipment (163%)
- Wholesale trade – Durable products (160%)
The previous Middle Market Power Index: Fueling the Nation's Economic Growth found that middle market companies are powering the U.S. economy – as much as 53% of the net new jobs over the past five years have come from middle market companies. The latest report found that the subcategories experiencing the strongest employment growth are generally also undergoing the strongest revenue growth. Two areas in particular, legal services and durable products, have led their industries in all three measures, indicating these are becoming more prominent in the American economy.
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"Middle market firms are leading business growth in the United States, outpacing both small and large-sized firms," said Jeff Stibel, vice chairman of Dun & Bradstreet. "More specifically, the service industry continues to lead middle market growth in terms of revenue, employment and number of firms, reflecting the larger trend in the U.S. moving from a manufacturing-based to a service-driven economy."
Generational Differences among Middle Market Firms
As our economy becomes more service and technology focused, it stands to reason that the younger firms entering the middle market are not going to be producing the same products or services as companies that were founded over 50 years ago.
Manufacturing is one industry where this generational difference is particularly strong. While it remains a foundational sector regardless of firm age, the types of products being manufactured differ between younger and older middle market firms. Middle market firms that have been in business for 50 years or more are much more likely than their youngest counterparts (those in business less than 10 years) to be making fabricated metal products – 17% vs. 10%. The youngest middle market manufacturing firms are instead much more likely than those in business 50 years or more to manufacture either electronic equipment or components (11% vs. 5%) or chemical products (12% vs. 5%). The shift in types of products being manufactured suggests how demand for certain goods has changed over time.
Although manufacturing is the most prevalent middle market industry, business services is seeing significant gains as well. Middle market firms that have been in business 10 years or less are more likely to be in business services (15%) compared to those that have been in business 50 years or more (5%). Within business services, the subcategory of legal services has been driving growth in number of firms, employment, and revenues and is dominated by middle market firms that have been in business 50 years or more. These older firms represent 25% of middle market legal services companies, compared to 2% of middle market legal services firms that have been in business less than 10 years. This can be an indicator that, while legal services have led growth in this sector, it takes much longer for firms in this industry to scale.
"Middle market companies are not only driving the national economy in terms of revenue and employment growth, but the most transformative middle market industries are shaping the overall direction of our economy," said Brendan Walsh, Executive Vice President, U.S., American Express Global Commercial Payments. "The success of younger manufacturing companies in the middle market is a key indicator of how technology is influencing and guiding the future of the industry, while the growth of business services as a focus for younger middle market companies reflects the strengthening knowledge economy."
To read the full Middle Market Power Index report, please visit http://about.americanexpress.com/news/docs/2016x/2016-09-06-Amex-DNB-MMPI.PDF.
American Express and Dun & Bradstreet will release subsequent Middle Market Power Index reports, which will explore other areas of opportunity unique to middle market firms.
Study Methodology
This report is based on an analysis of all of the U.S. firms in Dun & Bradstreet's commercial databases between March 2011 and March 2016: (1) a virtual census of all of the commercially active businesses in the United States (defined as firms that have obtained a D-U-N-S® Number and that sell and receive goods and services and utilize credit transactions in their business); (2) their credit scoring archive database, which collects and models business commercial activity and business financial strength. All subsidiary and business establishment data are combined; only enterprise-level data (top of the business family tree, or Ultimate D-U-N-S® Number firms) are reported. Additionally, public sector entities are excluded.
About Dun & Bradstreet
Dun & Bradstreet (NYSE: DNB) grows the most valuable relationships in business. By uncovering truth and meaning from data, we connect customers with the prospects, suppliers, clients and partners that matter most, and have since 1841. Nearly ninety percent of the Fortune 500, and companies of every size around the world, rely on our data, insights and analytics. For more about Dun & Bradstreet, visit DNB.com.
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Through its Global Commercial Payments division, American Express offers a suite of payment and lending products that help businesses and organizations of all sizes gain financial savings, control and efficiency. Global Commercial Payments provides solutions for travel and everyday business spending, cross border payments, global currency solutions, and business financing. To learn more about Global Commercial Payments visit business.americanexpress.com.
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The Ramadan Soaps
By Sumayyah Meehan, Muslim Media News Service (MMNS) Middle East Correspondent
The Holy Month of Ramadan heralds in a veritable wave of traditions, which are quite often tied to heritage and culture. This can be in the clothes worn during the month, or the food that graces the Iftar table. While most traditions in Ramadan are religious in nature, others are not.
Even before the crescent moon of Ramadan was sighted in Saudi Arabia, advertising placards for the newest Arabic soap operas began sprouting up in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon and several other Middle Eastern countries. For many Muslim viewers, it simply would not be Ramadan without having a salacious soap opera to watch during and after the daily fast is broken. And for corporations who payroll the soap operas, Ramadan is a golden opportunity to generate some much needed revenue.
Make no mistake, the Arabic soap operas have nothing to do with the principles of Islam, such as prayer or fasting, but rather focus on the evils of society that are perpetrated by misguided souls. In one recent drama that aired in Kuwait this past week, a wealthy businessman chases his single secretary at work all day professing his love for her and asking for her hand in marriage. Meanwhile, his wife is at home tending to the housework and stumbles upon a diamond bracelet he has purchased for his secretary. The drama switches to another married couple that seems happy enough. However, a male suitor promises to win the heart of the wife and if she won't agree he vows to destroy her life, which he does in the next scene. He places a call to her husband who in turn throws her out of the home, to her despair.
The prevalence of Arabic soap operas during Ramadan have had a detrimental effect on worship. Increased acts of worship and welcoming guests in the nights or visiting the homes of others take a backseat to catching the next installment of the serial. Last year alone it was estimated that at least 64 new soap operas appeared on Saudi television, around the clock during Ramadan. The soaps were stacked upon the hour so that viewers could tune in at any time of the day. Coveted ad space was stuck in between each plot as it developed–with commercials hawking everything from soap to cooking oil. In fact, it is the ad space that fuels the soaps, as viewers view each commercial as they wait for the plot to thicken.
Before, most Muslims in the Middle East would gather in the nights of Ramadan to worship or to discuss matters related to the deen. After all, the region is the cradle of Islam and the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad (s). However, these days many Muslims gather to watch soap operas together, gossip about what happened in the current installment or speculate what will happen in the one to come.
It is encouraging to note that not all Middle Eastern countries streamline a barrage of juicy soap operas during the Holy Month. In Turkey, the television programming is geared towards Islamic history, living the deen of Islam and Q&A shows where callers can call in to have their questions about Islam answered live on air by a reputable sheikh. Locally produced and aired music channels in Turkey also pull their programming during Ramadan in favor of airing Islamic nasheeds.
Storytelling is an age-old tradition. However, Ramadan is a golden gift that should be seized by every Muslim that is willing and able to receive the blessings that come with it. Being glued to the TV and rapturously eating up all the human folly portrayed there definitely tarnishes the reality of what Ramadan is all about.


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Curtis LaForche lives in a small Ohio town with his wife Samantha and six-year-old daughter Hannah, who is deaf. Curtis makes a modest living as a crew chief for a sand-mining company. Samantha is a stay-at-home mother and part-time seamstress who supplements their income by selling handmade wares at the flea market each weekend. Money is tight, and navigating Hannah's healthcare and special needs education is a constant struggle. Despite that, Curtis and Samantha are very much in love and their family is a happy one.
Then Curtis begins having terrifying dreams about an encroaching, apocalyptic storm. He chooses to keep the disturbance to himself, channeling his anxiety into the obsessive building of a storm shelter in their backyard. His seemingly inexplicable behavior concerns and confounds Samantha, and provokes intolerance among co-workers, friends and neighbors. But the resulting strain on his marriage and tension within the community doesn't compare to Curtis' private fear of what his dreams may truly signify.
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A brief history of drinking in Boston
Hear ye, imbibers of the Hub. I've been brushing up on my Boston booze history, and I thought it would be fun to lead, you know, a little salon with fellow boozehound-historians interested in the topic. So I mentioned this to Adam Lantheaume of the Boston Shaker one day, and he said, 'Why don't we do a class?' And I said, 'You're on.'
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By hub, Monday 9 April 2007 at 10:36 :: Gnome
Adobe, to be able to make their proprietary[1] platform for application developement, using Flash, did use the Open Source WebKit (that same HTML engin that Apple use for Safari, that is based on KHTML). The paradox is that to have WebKit work on Windows, they used Cairo as a backend. The good news is that Cairo is likely to get better and that WebKit using Cairo is likely to help greatly a Gtk based version.
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So you've just added additional memory to your computer because a friend told you it would help speed things up, but you haven't seen any improvement whatsoever. This could be because even though you've added more physical RAM to the computer, you haven't adjusted your operating system's virtual memory settings. Virtual Memory settings are usually created automatically at the time your Operating System is installed on your computer, so if you've upgraded with more physical RAM, you need to adjust the virtual memory settings accordingly. So how much virtual memory should you have? General rule of thumb is 1.5 times the value of physical RAM in the computer. This means if your computer has 2 GB Physical RAM (2048MB), your virtual memory (also known as a pagefile) should be 3 GB or 3072MB. Set this value by right clicking on "My Computer" Select the "properties" option and from there, the "Advanced" tab. Click "Settings" in the Performance section, and when the resulting dialog box appears, select the "Advanced" tab once again. Here you will see "Virtual Memory" in the bottom half of the window with the option to "Change". Follow the prompts to set your pagefile or virtual memory to the approriate value. I've provided a couple of screen captures below to point you in the right direction. If you're still uncertain, send me email and I'll be happy to guide you through!
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As a father, as a brother, as a son and as a Christian I stand in support of Ukraine, my wife and my family do as well. Earlier this week we sat down with our boys and explained the situation the people of Ukraine are having to deal with, how kids their age are having to flee their Country and why we must not only stand with them, but we must ALWAYS stand against tyranny. This was a night of prayer but know that we'll be supporting Ukraine with a lot more than prayer. BUY INDIE COMICS DAY 22' The most important day of the year for independent publishers like ours is back! On Saturday, October 1st, 2022 indie creators and fans Worldwide will join in unison, both in person and online as well; to celebrate independent comics and their creators.
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The attendance was exceeded what I expected and more importantly, they weren't there because they wanted to showoff their newest Cosplay or because they wanted an autograph from their favorite actor; they were there because they loved comic books! Granted, the location was perfect in the sense that it was spacious enough for people to look around without bumping into one another, the vendors had plenty of space to put their things, everything was well organized and they sold booze, yet nobody got drunk or belligerent; everyone had a great time from what I saw and heard from other vendors. For me specifically, it went great! Made a bunch of sales, made some great contacts, had a chance to chat with some amazing creators and colleagues, finally met a few creators I only knew from social media and interacted with the fans after such a long time; this was truly a great event for me. Some people came to our table and told me "I follow you on Instagram and wanted to buy your book in person and have you sign it", others said "I follow you on Instagram and saw that you were here so I wanted to meet you"; it felt great to know that there are people who really love your work and are interested in what we do; it makes the long hours behind a drawing board and a computer worthwhile.
Sometimes as creators we feel like we're just talking to ourselves on the internet because maybe we don't get a bunch of interactions, we don't get a thousand Likes or comments but what days like yesterday tell me is that there are people looking at what we do and are genuinely interested in our work; so we must keep on doing what we love and trust that your fans will show up like they did for me at NOICE. I have to say, I was a bit hesitant about my decision to print Project: New Wave No.3 as a Mini-Comic although I loved how they turned out, but after seeing the fans reactions and even casual people who stopped by our table out of curiosity; I know I made the right choice! So, I'll be changing the format of my comics to Mini-Comics size and they'll be printed on newsprint paper like in the old days; if I'm going to stay indie then I'm not going to contrive our product to the rules of mainstream comics. We'll pave our own way and whatever happens, happens. I'd like to give a huge shoutout to my table mate Miguel Dominado for not only being extremely professional in his approach, but also for being a genuinely good person, being aware of the fact that I was handicapped since I couldn't use my left arm, making sure I wasn't having anxiety or was in too much pain; that means a lot and I'll never forget that. I'll share a table with you anytime my friend! I also want to send a huge shoutout to the amazing @yokaniii @saberdog.art @micah_myers and @lionbyrd for showing love and being awesome, you made the day even better for me by just showing up; it meant a lot. So what can I say, amazing show and I can't wait for NOICE 2023! My Thoughts & Ramblings


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Accessibility App for Android for People Who are Blind or Have Low Vision
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Author: AT&T Inc.
Published: 2011/10/04
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Synopsis: AT&T customers who are blind or have low vision can now access and enjoy their Android device in a fully accessible way.
Introducing AT&T Mobile Accessibility Lite, Free Application to Enhance Android Experience for People Who are Blind or Have Low Vision - Provides Audio Feedback So Customers Can Easily Navigate the Screen and Access Key Device Features.Main Digest
AT&T customers who are blind or have low vision can now access and enjoy their Android device in a fully accessible way. Introducing AT&T Mobile Accessibility Lite, a custom version of the screen-access application, Mobile Accessibility, developed by Code Factory. The application features a suite of accessible apps so customers can perform the most common wireless tasks enjoyed by most Android users. The app was developed for customers with visual disabilities and is available today as a free*download in Android Market.
"AT&T has long been committed to offering wireless products and services that are usable and beneficial to as many people as possible," said Carlton Hill, vice president, Consumer Devices, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets. "As the first wireless carrier worldwide to offer Mobile Accessibility Lite, we are thrilled to make Android accessible to all of our customers."
AT&T Mobile Accessibility Lite features a suite of 11 accessible apps--Phone, Contacts, SMS, Alarm, Calendar, Email, Web, Where Am I, Apps, Music Player and Settings. Each is designed to be intuitive and easy to use for the blind and visually impaired customer.
Once a customer downloads Mobile Accessibility Lite to their Android smartphone, they have the option of making the suite the device's home screen. From within the suite, they can then easily navigate among any of the 11 featured apps just by moving their finger across the screen. The Nuance Vocalizer® voice synthesis then reads the text under their finger, allowing customers to perform any number of tasks, such as answering a call, managing their contacts, writing an SMS, editing a calendar entry, sending an email, or accessing GPS to get an update on their current location.
Other features include speech recognition, allowing customers to use their voice to write text and email messages quickly and easily. The Music Player app, unique to AT&T Mobile Accessibility Lite, automatically lists all the music files that are installed on the memory card of the phone and sorts them by Artists and Albums.
Mitch Pomerantz, President of the American Council of the Blind commented, "I am pleased that AT&T will be offering AT&T Mobile Accessibility Lite to AT&T Android users who are blind or have low vision. Increasingly, providers of cell phones and other portable devices are recognizing that blind and visually impaired persons will purchase off-the-shelf technology if it is fully accessible to us. AT&T's announcement is encouraging and a recognition of our status as consumers."
Dr. Marc Maurer, President of the National Federation of the Blind (NFB), said: "To remain competitive in the workforce, the National Federation of the Blind believes that blind people must have equal access to the same products and services as the sighted. Smartphone technology is increasingly critical to full participation in modern life. For that reason, this collaboration between AT&T and Code Factory is a positive development. The NFB is carefully monitoring new and emerging technologies and hopes that more companies will voluntarily take the necessary steps to ensure that the products and services they offer are accessible to all."
AT&T Mobile Accessibility Lite supports all Android phones version 2.1 and above***. Customers who are blind or have low vision are invited to download the free app in Android Market or from the web at bit.ly/okQVzk.
For more information on AT&T Mobile Accessibility Lite or other AT&T resources or products for people with disabilities, please visit www.codefactory.es/en/products.aspid=424 or contact AT&T's National Center for Customers with Disabilities at 1-866-241-6568.
*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.
**AT&T Mobile Accessibility Lite will be available for free for a limited time.
**Speech recognition is only supported with version 2.2 and above.
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The basics of the Jewish calendar were explained on the previous page, and will be mentioned only in passing here. This page is intended for those who are interested in a deeper understanding of the workings of Rabbi Hillel II's fixed calendar, or those who want to be able to build their own Jewish calendar computer programs.
Although this page will focus primarily on calendar calculations, I encourage you not to dismiss this as purely a mathematical exercise devoid of spiritual value. The sages emphasized the value of studying astronomy as a way of appreciating the greatness of the Creator's work. This page does focus on some arcane mathematics, but do not be intimidated by it: the Jewish scholar Rambam wrote that, "the method of the fixed calendar is one which an average school child can master in 3 or 4 days." (Hilkhot Qiddush HaHodesh 11:4). A lot of the confusion people experience stems from variations in the way different sources say the same thing, and the way some sources use familiar terms to mean unfamiliar things. I will do my best to keep these variations straight for you.
This page includes JavaScript that performs all of the calculations described, in the order that the concepts are presented here and with detailed comments. Those who are comfortable with programming languages may find it faster and easier to understand the math by looking at the code. This code is not necessarily the best or most efficient script possible, but it's not intended to be; it's intended to illustrate how the calendar is calculated. Despite the inefficiency of this code, I have no doubt that it will be appearing on other websites in short order. Would it kill you to give me credit and a link back?
The Jewish calendar is based on three astronomical phenomena: the rotation of the Earth about its axis (a day); the revolution of the moon about the Earth (a month); and the revolution of the Earth about the sun (a year). These three phenomena are independent of each other, so there is no direct correlation between them. On average, the moon revolves around the Earth in about 29½ days. The Earth revolves around the sun in about 365¼ days, that is, about 12 lunar months and 11 days.
To coordinate these three phenomena, and to accommodate certain ritual requirements, the Jewish calendar consists of 12 or 13 months of 29 or 30 days, and can be 353, 354, 355, 383, 384 or 385 days long. The keystone of the calendar is the new moon, referred to in Hebrew as the molad.
A new month on the Jewish calendar begins with the molad, (pronounced moh-LAHD). Molad is a Hebrew word meaning "birth," and refers to what we call the "new moon" in English. The molad for the month of Tishri (the month that starts with Rosh Hashanah) is the most important one for calendar calculations, and is referred to as Molad Tishri.
Note that the calculated molad does not necessarily correspond precisely to the astronomical new moon. The length of time from one astronomical new moon to the next varies somewhat because of the eccentric orbits of the Earth and Moon; however, the moladot of Rabbi Hillel's calendar are set using a fixed average length of time: 29 days, 12 hours, and 793 "parts" (or in Hebrew, chalakim). The amount of time is commonly written in an abbreviated form: 29d 12h 793p.
A "part" (or in Hebrew, cheilek) is a unit of time used in the Jewish calendar, equal to 3-1/3 seconds. There are 18 parts in a minute and 1,080 parts in an hour. Most sources express time from calendar calculations in days, hours and parts, although some sources break the parts down into minutes. For example, the period between moladot could be written as 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes and 1 part (29d 12h 44m 1p), because 793 parts is 44 minutes and 1 part (793 = 44 times 18 parts plus 1 part) . This makes the resulting times look somewhat more familiar, but it increases the number of calculations, so we will stick with days, hours and parts.
The same shorthand can be used to express the time when a molad occurs. The time is normally expressed as a day of the week, along with the hours and parts (or hours, minutes and parts). For example, the time of a molad might be expressed as 2d 12h 1005p (or 2d 12h 55m 15p), meaning that it occurs on Monday (the second day) at the 12th hour and 1005 parts.
The "hours" used to calculate the molad are standard 1/24 of a day hours. Note that this differs from the "hours" used for ritual scheduling, which are 1/12 of the time from sunrise to sunset. For example, at Pesach (Passover), we are required to stop eating chametz at the end of the "fourth hour "of the morning on Nissan 14, that is, at the end of 1/3 of the time between sunrise and sunset. These "seasonal hours" vary depending on the time of the year; molad hours are constant. The time for the molad is Jerusalem Solar Time, which is not necessarily the same as your local time. It is also not necessarily the same as the time on the clock, even in Jerusalem. This fact has no effect on your calculations, but is worth knowing.
The Jewish "day" starts at sunset, rather than at midnight. If you read the story of creation in Genesis Ch. 1, you will notice that it says, "And there was evening, and there was morning, one day." From this, we infer that a day begins with evening, that is, at sunset. Accordingly, most sources discussing the molad use 6PM of the preceding evening as the "zero hour." In our example, 2d 12h 1005p, the 12h means the 12th hour after 6PM, that is, 6AM. If a molad occurs at 2d 4h 0p, this means that it occurs at 10PM on Sunday night, because the second day (Monday) begins at 6PM of the preceding evening (Sunday). Some sources, however, use the more familiar Western conventions and use midnight as the zero hour. Be very careful to check which system is being used when you rely on times given by any source! If the time is referred to as "Rambam time" or something similar, then you know it uses 6PM as the zero hour. On this page, I am using Rambam time, but some well-respected Orthodox sources in America use midnight as their zero hour. As long as you are consistent, you will get the same result under either system.
Here is an overview of the steps involved in calculating the date of Rosh Hashanah on the Jewish calendar:
If you want to calculate a date other than Rosh Hashanah, you will have to calculate either that year's Rosh Hashanah, the following year's Rosh Hashanah or both and use this information to work out the date.
We will now look at these steps in detail, illustrating the techniques by calculating the dates of Rosh Hashanah and Pesach (Passover) in the year 5775 (2014-2015) using 5732 as our starting point. As I said above, if you are comfortable with JavaScript, you may find that it is faster and easier to understand these concepts by viewing my code here. This code is designed to illustrate calendar principles and is not the most efficient code possible. If you choose to use it in your own work despite this warning, would it kill you to give me credit and a link back?
Step 1: Start with a Known Molad
To perform any calculations on the Jewish calendar, you need a starting point, preferably the molad of Tishri for a specific year, along with the corresponding secular date if you want to be able to convert the Hebrew date to secular. It is not possible to work out a molad from first principles, because the first molad of creation (known as Molad Tohu) did not occur at 0d 0h 0p!
I like to base my calculations on the molad of Tishri 5732, which occurred at 2d 7h 743p (using 6PM as the zero hour), and corresponded to the secular date September 20, 1971. I use this particular year because it is the first Molad Tishri after 1/1/1970 (Javascript's 0 date) that is not subject to dechiyot (postponements), which complicate secular date conversions. If you will be calculating dates in the past and would like to avoid the complications of subtracting dates, you may prefer to work with an earlier molad, such as Tishri 5661 (9/24/1900), 2d 11h 9p, or even Molad Tishri 5558 (9/21/1797), 5d 11h 607p. I'm sure our Christian friends are primarily interested in knowing Molad Tishri 3762 (the year 1), or some other year in that lifetime. Unfortunately, the program I use to calculate molads overflows after 3861 (the year 100), so you'll have to work out the rest yourself: Molad Tishri 3869 (9/22/108, the earliest one I can work out that is not subject to postponements) is 7d 8h 957p. A more interesting base from my perspective is Molad Tishri 4120 (9/10/359), 5d 8h 29p, which is the first non-postponed year after Rabbi Hillel II developed this calendar! Any calculations before that calendar was developed do not necessarily correspond to what people in those times observed. In addition, it is very complicated to convert a Hebrew date to a secular date before the Gregorian calendar reforms, which took effect at different times in different countries (introduced in 1582 but not adopted in America until 1752!).
Step 2: Determine the Number of Months to Tishri of Your Year
The next step is to determine how many months are between your starting point and Tishri of the year of your end point. There are exactly 235 months in every 19-year cycle of leap years (12 12-month years plus 7 13-month years), but if your number of years is not evenly divisible by 19, then you will have to determine whether each remaining year is a regular year (12 months) or a leap year (13 months).
Fortunately, the leap year cycle is easily calculated. Leap years occur in years 3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17 and 19 of a 19-year cycle, and the 19-year cycle begins in the year 1, so you can simply divide the year number by 19 and examine the remainder. If the remainder is 3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17 or 0 (the 19th year of the cycle) then the year is a leap year. Otherwise, it is not.
There are two cycles between 5732 and 5775, with a remainder of 5 years (5775 - 5732 / 19 = 2 remainder 5), that is 470 months from 5732 to 5770. To get the remaining months, you determine whether each month is a leap month by dividing by 19 and looking at the remainder:
Year | Remainder | Leap Year? | Months |
5770 | 13 | No | 12 |
5771 | 14 | Yes | 13 |
5772 | 15 | No | 12 |
5773 | 16 | No | 12 |
5774 | 17 | Yes | 13 |
Plus 2 cycles (2*235) | 470 | ||
Total | 532 |
Step 3: Multiply the Number of Months by the Length of the Molad
Next, we multiply the number of months by the average length of the molad, which is 29d 12h 793p:
Of course, we will then have to round up the smaller units into the larger units, just as we would round 75 minutes into 1 hour and 15 minutes. Here are the stages of this rounding:
We now know the amount of time between our starting molad and our ending molad: 15,710d 6h 676p
Step 4: Add the Result to the Starting Molad
Next, we add the elapsed time calculated above to the starting date to get the ending date. Our starting molad is 2d 12h 1005p (using 6PM as 0h). We will not add the days yet, for reasons that will soon become clear.
Now we need to do some more rounding:
At this point, we should note the number of days elapsed between our starting point and our ending point: 15,710 days. We must note this at this point in the calculation, after the hours are rounded into the days but before the weekday of the starting molad is added to the number of days. This number of days will be necessary to determine the Gregorian date. Note that if the hours are more than 24 at this point, you will need to round those hours into the days to get the elapsed time. In this calculation, however, the number of hours is only 14.
Let's finish the calculation of the molad, adding the days and determining the day of the week:
The remainder of 4 days gives us the day of the week for our molad, so the resulting molad is: 4d 14h 339p, that is, Wednesday in the 14th hour (8 am) and 339 parts, with 15,710 elapsed days. Note that if the remainder is 0 days, the molad is 7d (Shabbat), because 7 days / 7 days per week = 1 week remainder 0 days.
Step 5: Apply the Dechiyot
There are four rules of postponement known as dechiyot, pronounced d'-khee-YOHT, where "kh" is a throat-clearing noise (singular: dechiyah). These rules postpone the date of Rosh Hashanah, but do not affect the calculated time of the molad. One of the dechiyot is a general rule of rounding while the rest are designed to prevent oddities in the length of the year and the date of Rosh Hashanah.
Dechiyah 1: Molad Zakein
The first dechiyah is molad zakein, meaning an "old" molad. If the molad occurs at or after noon (that is, 18h where 6PM is 0h or 12h where midnight is 0h), the molad is considered to be "old" and we round to the next day. This rule is quite commonly applied, affecting a quarter of all years (half if you use midnight as the 0 hour).
If noon seems a bit early to be considering the molad "old," remember that the Jewish "day" starts at sunset. The rule of molad zakein simply means that a molad at or after noon relates to the "day" that starts at the next sunset (4-10 hours later) rather than the previous sunset (14-20 hours earlier). This rationale is clear from the Rambam notation, where 6PM is 0h and a Molad Zakein is one that occurs at or after 18h in a 24h day.
Interestingly, Molad Zakein is the reason why you will get the same result regardless of whether you use 6PM or midnight as your zero hour. With midnight as your zero hour, Molad Zakein applies to molads after 12h, applying in half of all years. With 6PM as your zero hour, Molad Zakein only applies in one quarter of all years, but molads between 6PM and midnight are already considered to be part of the next day, so the result is the same!
Our molad occurs at 14h in Rambam notation, so it is not a molad zakein and Rosh Hashanah stays on the calculated date for now.
Note that when dechiyot like this apply, a day must be added to the elapsed time for purposes of calculating the Gregorian equivalent date, but the molad does not change. The unchanged molad is used for purposes of calculating subsequent years and for certain religious purposes. For example, in 5760, the calculated molad was 6d 21h 801p. Molad Zakein pushed Rosh Hashanah to the next day, but if you were to calculate a subsequent date using 5760 as your base, you would calculate from 6d (Friday), not from Saturday. This is why it is best to start with a molad that is not subject to postponements.
Dechiyah 2: Lo A"DU Rosh
The second dechiyah is known as Lo A"DU or Lo A"DU Rosh. This rule states that Rosh Hashanah cannot occur on a Sunday (Day 1), a Wednesday (Day 4) or a Friday (Day 6). The word Lo means "Not," and the word A"DU is a way of pronouncing Alef-Dalet-Vav, letters with the numerical values 1, 4 and 6 (see Hebrew Alphabet - Numerical Values). If the calculated molad occurs on one of these days of the week, Rosh Hashanah is postponed by a day to prevent other problems with the calendar. If Rosh Hashanah fell on a Wednesday or Friday, then Yom Kippur would fall on a Friday or Sunday, which is undesirable. If Rosh Hashanah fell on a Sunday, the Hoshanah Rabbah would fall on a Saturday, making it impossible to observe some of the day's customs.
This dechiyah is also commonly applied, as you might imagine. It applies to three out of seven days, so one would expect it to occur almost half of the time.
Note that the dechiyot of molad zakein and Lo A"DU Rosh can work in combination: a molad at 5d 19h 0m 0p (Thursday at 1PM) is rounded to Friday by the rule of Molad Zakein, then postponed to Saturday by the rule of Lo A"DU Rosh, even though the original molad was on a valid day of the week. On the other hand, a molad at 4d 19h 0m 0p (Wednesday at 1PM) is rounded to Thursday by Molad Zakein, and Lo A"DU Rosh does not apply: even though the molad occurred on Wednesday, Molad Zakein has already moved it off of that date so Lo A"DU Rosh is not necessary. This is why the rule of Molad Zakein must be checked before the rule of Lo A"DU Rosh.
Our molad occurs on 4d, Wednesday, so it is postponed to Thursday. You should add 1 to your elapsed time so your secular date conversion will be correct. There are now 15,711 elapsed days.
Dechiyah 3: Gatarad
The remaining two dechiyot are much less commonly applied.
Dechiyah Gatarad holds that if Molad Tishri in a simple (12-month, non-leap) year occurs on a Tuesday at 9h 204p or later, Rosh Hashanah is postponed to the next day (a Wednesday, which by the effect of Lo A"DU Rosh would then be postponed to Thursday).
The name, Gatarad, is a mnemonic for the rule. In Hebrew, Gatarad it is spelled Gimel-Teit-Reish-Dalet. Using letters as numerals, Gimel is 3, and represents Tuesday. Teit is 9 and represents the 9th hour (that is, 9h in Rambam notation, but 3h in midnight-based notation). Reish is 200 and Dalet is 4, representing 204 parts.
Why does such a complicated rule exist? This rule prevents the possibility that a year might be 356 days, an invalid length. Consider: a Molad Tishri at 3d 9h 204p would not be postponed by Molad Zakein or Lo A"DU Rosh. Add 12 lunar cycles (354d 8h 876p) to the next year's Rosh Hashanah and you get 7d 18h 0p with 354 days elapsed. Molad Zakein applies to the following year, postponing Rosh Hashanah to the next day, a Sunday, with 355 days elapsed. Lo A"DU Rosh is then triggered, postponing Rosh Hashanah and leaving 356 days elapsed and making the current year an invalid length. Gatarad takes days away from the following year and adds them to the preceding year, so both years are a valid length.
Note that Gatarad invariably triggers Lo A"DU Rosh. Gatarad only applies when Rosh Hashanah is Tuesday and Gatarad postpones Rosh Hashanah to Wednesday. Lo A"DU Rosh then postpones Rosh Hashanah to Thursday. Some programmers like to check Gatarad before checking Lo A"DU Rosh; others check Gatarad after Lo A"DU Rosh but use this rule to add two days (the Gatarad day plus the resulting Lo A"DU Rosh day). Either way, if Gatarad applies, Rosh Hashanah falls on Thursday.
Note also that this rule is not combined with Molad Zakein. If Molad Zakein applies to the current year, Gatarad is unnecessary; thus Gatarad applies only to molads between 9h 204p and 17h 1079p.
As you might imagine, this rule is not commonly applied. It applies only in non-leap years (12 out of 19 years) when the molad occurs on Tuesday (1 out of 7 days) between the 9th hour and the 18th hour (9 out of 24 hours). It occurs about three times a century. It last occurred in 5745 (1984-85) and will not occur again until 5796 (2035-36).
Dechiyah 4: Betutkafot
Like Dechiyah Gatarad, this rule is not very commonly applied and is designed to prevent a year from having an invalid length. Dechiyah Betutkafot prevents a leap-year from having 382 days (too few days) by postponing Rosh Hashanah of the non-leap year following the leap year.
Also like Dechiyah Gatarad, the name of the rule tells you how it is calculated: if Molad Tishri in a year following a leap year occurs on Monday (Beit, 2) after the 15th hour (Teit-Vav, 15 in Rambam notation, but 9h in midnight-based notation) and 589 parts (Tav-Kaf-Pei-Teit, 589), then it is postponed to the next day. The rule is applied only if the actual molad occurs on Monday, not if it is postponed to Monday. Like Gatarad, the rule really only applies to molads before noon (18h), because Molad Zakein handles the postponements for molads at or after noon. Unlike Gatarad, Betutkafot does not trigger Lo A"DU Rosh, because Betutkafot postpones Rosh Hashanah from a Monday to a Tuesday and Tuesday is an acceptable day for Rosh Hashanah.
The reasoning behind this rule is similar to the reasoning behind Gatarad: the 13 lunar cycles of the preceding year are 383d 21h 589p. If this year's Molad Tishri occurs after 2d 15h 589p, then the preceding year's Molad Tishri must have occurred on or after 3d 18h 0p. This is 384 elapsed days, but the preceding year's Molad Tishri was a Molad Zakein postponing Rosh Hashanah to Wednesday, which triggers Lo A"DU, moving Rosh Hashanah to Thursday. The two postponements shorten the preceding year to 382 days. Dechiyah Betutkafot postpones the current year's Rosh Hashanah by one day to increase the preceding year to a permissible 383 days.
This is the rarest of the four dechiyot, applying only in the year after a leap year (7 out of 19 years) when the molad occurs on Monday (1 out of 7 days) between the 15th hour and the 18th hour (3 out of 24 hours). It applies once or twice a century. The last time it applied was 5766 (2005-06). It will not apply again until 6013 (2252-2253)!
Step 6: Add Elapsed Days to Gregorian Starting Date
To determine the Gregorian date for Rosh Hashanah, you must take the elapsed days calculated in Step 4, add any additional days triggered by the dechiyot in Step 5, and add this number of days to the date of Rosh Hashanah for your known molad. For those following the script: JavaScript doesn't do a great job of handling dates, but the ConvertGreg function adds elapsed dates and returns a properly formatted date (American m/d/yyyy format). If you're trying to do this without writing a program, a spreadsheet such as Microsoft Excel should be able to add a number of days to a date.
To calculate the date of Rosh Hashanah for any year after 5732 using the principles above:
These steps are performed by the function CalcRH in the JavaScript, used by the form below. Just type the Hebrew year and the secular date will appear, using only the functions discussed above. Click the button below to try it!
The principles and JavaScript above are sufficient to allow you to convert Rosh Hashanah to a Gregorian date for any year. However, if you want to calculate a date other than Rosh Hashanah, you will have to calculate either that year's Rosh Hashanah, the following year's Rosh Hashanah or both and use this information to work out the date. The information you need varies depending on the month of the date you are calculating
The form below uses the functions above to calculate the dates of major Jewish holidays for any Hebrew year after 5731 (1970/71).
Calendar scholars use a system of encoding to describe each Jewish year. This encoding consists of three Hebrew letters that serve as a shorthand for important features of the calendar, and once you work out the code, you know everything you need to know about the calendar. You don't need to know the encoding system to be able to calculate the calendar, but it may help you understand important features of the calendar.
The first letter is either Pei or Mem. Pei stands for the Hebrew word P'shuta (simple), and refers to a 12-month regular year. Mem stands for Me'uberet, and refers to a 13-month leap year.
The second letter indicates which day of the week Rosh Hashanah occurs. Letters of the Hebrew alphabet also serve as numerals (see Hebrew Alphabet - Numerical Values), and this letter indicates whether Rosh Hashanah occurs on a Monday (Beit, that is, 2), a Tuesday (Gimel, 3), a Thursday (Hei, 5) or a Saturday (Zayin, 7). Why not Alef (1), Dalet (4) or Vav (6)? Because Dechiyah Lo A"DU Rosh, discussed above, prevents Rosh Hashanah from falling on Sunday, Wednesday or Friday.
The third letter tells you the length of the year, which can be 353, 354 or 355 days (in a leap year, 383, 384 or 385). This variation comes in part from the length of the molad cycles (which add about 8 or 21 hours to the time of day each year, which sometimes rolls over to another day) and in part from the application of the dechiyot. A year's length can be encoded as Cheit for Chaseir (deficient or lacking, a 353 or 383 day year), Kaf for K'Seder (in order, a 354 or 384 day year) or Shin for Shaleim (whole or complete, a 355 or 385 day year). In a Chaseir year, both Cheshvan and Kislev have 29 days. In a Shaleim year, both Cheshvan and Kislev have 30 days. In a K'Seder year, Cheshvan has 29 days and Kislev has 30 days.
Under this system of encoding, the current year (5765) is coded Mem-Hei-Cheit, because it is a leap year (Mem), Rosh Hashanah started on a Thursday (Hei), and the year will have 383 days (Cheit). Next year (5766) would be encoded as Pei-Gimel-Kaf because it will be a regular (non-leap) year, it will start on a Tuesday, and it will have 354 days.
Some people code the years differently: the day of Rosh Hashanah as the first letter (instead of the second), the length of the year as the second letter (instead of the third), and the day of the week that Pesach (Passover) starts as the third. This third letter can be Alef (1, Sunday) through Zayin (7, Saturday). The advantage of this system is that it tells you the day of the week that both Pesach and Rosh Hashanah occur, which has some effect on their observances, and once these are known, we can infer the days of the other major festivals (Sukkot and Shavu'ot). The disadvantage is that nothing in this system tells you whether the year is a leap year, although this can be inferred if you know the calendar well enough.
Although there are many theoretical permutations of these three-letter codes, only 14 of them are actually possible given the constraints of calendar calculations. This means that there are only 14 different possible layouts for an annual Jewish calendar. Keep in mind, though, that these 14 different layouts don't necessarily correspond to the same Gregorian days, but they do correspond to the distribution of weekly Torah readings. For example, in the year 5765, a Mem-Hei-Cheit year, the Torah portion Emor was read on 5 Iyar, which was May 14, 2005. The next Mem-Hei-Cheit year will be 5768, and Parshat Emor will be read on 5 Iyar in that year too, but 5 Iyar will occur on May 10, 2008. Contrast this with 5766, a Pei-Gimel-Kaf year, when Emor will be read on 15 Iyar (May 13, 2006).
The following table shows which parshiyot are combined in which year encodings:
Year Encoding | Parshiyot Combined |
Mem-Beit-Cheit | Chukat-Balak Matot-Masei Nitzavim-Vayeilech |
Mem-Beit-Shin | Matot-Masei |
Mem-Gimel-Kaf | Matot-Masei |
Mem-Hei-Cheit | none |
Mem-Hei-Shin | Nitzavim-Vayeilech |
Mem-Zayin-Cheit | Matot-Masei Nitzavim-Vayeilech |
Mem-Zayin-Shin | Chukat-Balak Matot-Masei Nitzavim-Vayeilech |
Pei-Beit-Cheit | Vayakhel-Pekudei Tazria-Metzora Achrei Mot-Kedoshim Behar-Bechukotai Matot-Masei Nitzavim-Vayeilech |
Pei-Beit-Shin | Vayakhel-Pekudei Tazria-Metzora Achrei Mot-Kedoshim Behar-Bechukotai Chukat-Balak Matot-Masei Nitzavim-Vayeilech |
Pei-Gimel-Kaf | Vayakhel-Pekudei Tazria-Metzora Achrei Mot-Kedoshim Behar-Bechukotai Chukat-Balak Matot-Masei Nitzavim-Vayeilech |
Pei-Hei-Kaf | Vayakhel-Pekudei Tazria-Metzora Achrei Mot-Kedoshim Behar-Bechukotai Matot-Masei |
Pei-Hei-Shin | Tazria-Metzora Achrei Mot-Kedoshim Behar-Bechukotai Matot-Masei |
Pei-Zayin-Cheit | Vayakhel-Pekudei Tazria-Metzora Achrei Mot-Kedoshim Behar-Bechukotai Matot-Masei |
Pei-Zayin-Shin | Vayakhel-Pekudei Tazria-Metzora Achrei Mot-Kedoshim Behar-Bechukotai Matot-Masei Nitzavim-Vayeilech |
At one time, the accuracy of the Jewish calendar was proverbial. But how accurate is it really?
The average lunar month on the Jewish calendar is 29d 12h 793p. The average lunar month as calculated by modern astronomers is 29d 12h 44m 2.8s, that is, 29d 12h 792.84p. so the variation is less than two tenths of the smallest unit of measurement recognized by the system, about half of a second. That is quite remarkably accurate. Of course, those lost half-seconds do add up: within in a century, you're off by 10 minutes.
How well does the calendar correspond to the solar year? The rabbis recognized long ago that the calendar gains 1h 485p in every 19-year cycle, adding up to a day every 300 years or so. This was important to the rabbis in scheduling certain rituals that are based on the solar year rather than the lunar year. We can see this effect when we examine the dates of Rosh Hashanah over time.
Rabbi Hillel II developed the Jewish calendar in the Jewish year 4119. Using his calendar methods as described above, and artificially assuming that the Gregorian calendar we use today was in effect at that time, the date of Rosh Hashanah ranged from August 29 to September 28 between the years 4100 and 4200 (the 42nd century). In the present Jewish century (the 58th), the dates of Rosh Hashanah range from September 5 to October 5, a gain of 6 or 7 days. This is considerably more accurate than the Julian calendar used by Christians in Rabbi Hillel's time (which had to be corrected by 11 days a few centuries ago), but you can see that it is gaining some time.
The discrepancy in the Jewish calendar, however, is still less than a lunar month and is therefore as accurate as it is possible to be in a lunisolar calendar. In fact, it takes about 9300 years for this discrepancy to accumulate to a full month of time. The rabbis were aware of the problem, but were quite confident that a new Sanhedrin will be established long before this discrepancy becomes problematic. We still have more than 3500 years to go.
The book that most people recommend for learning about the Jewish calendar is Rabbi Nathan Bushwick's Understanding the Jewish Calendar. I ordered this book while I was writing this page; it took about a month to arrive, and I confess I was a bit disappointed by it. About half of the book was basic astronomy that I learned in fourth grade, and most of the calendar calculations I had learned before the book arrived. Nevertheless, the book did have some interesting insights and thorough citation to Torah, Talmud and Rambam that you may find useful or interesting.
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