Re: CHAT: Jewish calendar

Steg Belsky wrote:
> I don't understand....what's the significance of the Spring Equinox?
> Passover has to be celebrated in the Spring, but i've never heard
> anything about the actual day of the equinox...
Well, Passover is supposed to be at the beginning of Spring, that is,
Nisan is supposed to be the first month of Spring.  Therefore, the
equinox should (theoretically) always fall in Nisan.  Another way of
looking at it is that, if the calendar were perfectly aligned with the
solar calendar, a given date (say Nisan 14) should always fall on the
exact same point in the tropical year [i.e., same distance from Spring
Equinox] every 19 years.

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