Kay (10 June 2006)
"To Ted--"Re:"From conception to birth"The Feast of Hanukkah is the correct distance on the calendar from,the Feast of Tabernacles to comlete a 280 day pregnancy""

I thought this was a fascinating subject, and checked out the feast days for this year to see if any matched up with a 40 week pregnancy. Check this out!

05-DEC-26 Hanukkah + 40 weels = Oct 2, 2006 OCT 2 is YOM KIPPUR-- Which is the last day of Rosh Hashanah, and climax of the 10 days of Awe.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/main_day2.htm (Jewish feast days)

and from www.timeanddate.com:

From date: Monday, December 26, 2005
Added 40 weeks
Normalized to 280 days
Resulting date: Monday, October 2, 2006

Kay