Re: CHAT: Passover

Raymond Brown scripsit:

> ...and if the latter, then where?  Otherwise the festival will not be the
> same day everywhere in world.
>
> Muslim festivals are regulated purely by the moon phases and, if I've
> understood my Muslim students properly, it's the moon phases as at Mecca.
> Presumably anyone using the actual moon (as opposed to the "calendar
> moon"), would use the full-moon at Jerusalem for calculating the date.
The phases of the Moon depend solely on the relative positions of the
Moon and the Sun, and are quite independent of one's position on
the Earth.

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