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Are you ready for a cosmic shift of epic proportions? You’d better be, because such a shift is approaching, courtesy of our moon! This Friday, September 30th, the moon will be new but ‘black.’ During a black moon, the side of Earth’s natural satellite lit by the sun faces away from our planet. As a result, …
Also at Space.com which clarifies that when there are two New Moons in a single calendar month, the second one is called a Black Moon. This is analogous to a "Blue Moon" which is the second Full Moon occurring in a single calendar month.
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Everyone hates me because I'm paranoid.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Saturday October 01 2016, @03:33AM
You're thinking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosh_Hashanah [wikipedia.org] which is about now.
Rosh ~ Head
Ha ~ The [prefix] (definite article)
Chodesh ~ Month
HaChodesh ~ The month
Shanah ~ Year
HaShanah ~ The year
But since Hebrew has cases, the Ha prefix can drop in some (dative?) sentence structures so you'd find either form being used.
Anyhow, the season is coming to an end so hopefully all this Jewish mumbo-jumbo will be over and done with now.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 01 2016, @08:37AM
Following the links, you're both right. One is a new month, the other a new year. Just like Jan 1, all new years are also new months.
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Saturday October 01 2016, @10:19AM
ⓋⒶ☮✝🕊 Secession is the right of all sentient beings
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Saturday October 01 2016, @10:20PM
Hmm, Google says new moons are under the Blessings of Sights category so they're fairly meaningless in Judaism by themselves. An extra prayer here... A day off there... About as significant as a lightning and nothing close to a holiday worth conspiring about ;)
Their significance seems to be in reference to major holidays that need to coincide with both season and lunar state. That leaves the yearly calendar with 12 lunar months and an extra leap month every 2-3 years...
Maybe they had some significance when the temple was up and running? Probably just an extra goat on the celestial BBQ. Possibly a day off?! No clue. If it's not directly related to Hellenic history curriculum or was mention as part of Latin \ Hebrew class, I wouldn't know ;)
Either-way, if there's a more-then-coincidental rise in Jewish stories lately, it's the new year. Not the new month.
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(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Sunday October 02 2016, @01:02PM
First off, in case you didn't realize, I was trying to be funny. I don't believe in Jewish conspiracies.
Part of my intended humor was to mock the whole "black moon" thing as being something that's essentially a coincidental quirk of our calendar system rather than being anything newsworthy. (Calendar quirks are interesting to me, but the media sometimes gives them coverage disproportionate to their true significance.)
Finally, yeah, the new moon does have a lot of significance to at least some Jews, although you are right it was a bigger deal back when the temple was around. Supposedly the new moons for the next few thousand years were all quickly "pre-blessed" when it became obvious that the Sanhedrin was going to be disbanded.
http://www.beingjewish.com/yomtov/chodesh/newmoon.html [beingjewish.com]
ⓋⒶ☮✝🕊 Secession is the right of all sentient beings
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Tuesday October 04 2016, @05:20PM
Oh... Yeah sure.
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[puts aside hoods, nooses, pitchforks and torches]
Lynch canceled boys! It was all just a joke.
[A mob of rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers, and Methodists begrudgingly throws their arms as they head back to the buses voicing their disappointment with great sorrow and mild G rated profanities.]
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