Subject:  The New Moon 
Date:     Thu, 23 Apr 1998 00:46:09 +0000 
To:       "Hebraic Heritage Newsgroup"<heb_roots_chr@geocities.com>  
  

From:          Watchman on the Wall 
To:            <heb_roots_chr@geocities.com> 
Subject:       Question : Moons 

Shalom Eddie, 

I have a question for you. I believe in the setting of months by the new 
moon, and that the spring equinox sent notice that the next new moon was 
the first month and thus 14 days past that new moon began the feast of 
passover. Now, my question is this:  How do we establish this fact via the 
word. I have looked up "new moon" , "months", "feasts", etc.?  But the 
simple statement that we begin our calandar by the first new moon after the 
Spring Equinox and not spring equinox evades me. 

There are some who teach that the ancient Hebrews used a solar calandar 
therefore the current dating and celebrating of passover is off and should 
have been on April 4th this year. I disagree with them, but want better 
proof than to just list the number of times the word new moon and feasts 
are connected. 

Thanks in advance 

Christina 

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