Hi:> > > Your quote: "The days in a Hebrew month do not change between Pentecost and the Feast of Trumpets in any year. The first month that can change is Cheshvan."<br /><br />> > You then list either 29 or 30 days for each month and indicate that "Cheshvan has either 29 or 30 days".<br /><br />> > You must be using the rabbinical calendar based on a man-made 19 year cycle. As I had mentioned in my response, I had looked at the tentative calendar for 2015 on the Karaite Korner website.There were some differences in setting Tishri 1 this year, and that determines which type of calendar fits the rest of the year. There are even differences in dates given by online calendar programs. We need the Sanhedrin to declare the correct date of Tishri 1.Some people just want to look for the new crescent moon each month, but that isn’t how Israel does it.The Hebrew Calendar says “1st of Tishrei, 5775 = Thu, 25 September 2014”.The Karaites go by September 26, when the new moon was actually seen from Israel. Nehemiah Gordon said Sept. 26.“On Friday September 26, 2014, observers in Israel sighted the new moon. The new moon was first sighted:
*from Kiryat Ata by Yoel Halevi at 6:31 pm;
*from Jerusalem by Devorah Levine at 6:37 pm;
*from Tel Aviv by Rebekah Bibb and Lavinia Voelker at 6:44pm;
*from Poriyya Illit by Kenny and Hayley Russell at 6:45 pm.”At YourSky, on Sept. 27, the crescent Moon was under Virgo’s feet, as in Rev. 12. That could be used to set Tishri 1, but I don’t know anyone who set Tishri 1 on Sept. 27.Time and Date added “New Year day 2”
“Sep 25 Tishri 1 Rosh Hashana (New Year) Sep 26 Tishri 2 Rosh Hashana II (New Year day 2)” Calendar Converter has Sept. 25 as Tishri 1, and Sept. 26 as Tishri 2.“Speaking of the Hebrew Calendar, it says, “The average length of a month is 29.530594 days, extremely close to the mean synodic month (time from new Moon to next new Moon) of 29.530588 days. Such is the accuracy that more than 13,800 years elapse before a single day discrepancy between the calendar's average reckoning of the start of months and the mean time of the new Moon. Alignment with the solar year is better than the Julian calendar, but inferior to the Gregorian. The average length of a year is 365.2468 days compared to the actual solar tropical year (time from equinox to equinox) of 365.24219 days, so the calendar accumulates one day of error with respect to the solar year every 216 years.”It used to be the job of the Sanhedrin to set the date of Tishri 1 and pick the type of year that fit. I don’t know whether the Sanhedrin established in 2004 does this or not. I hope they do, or will soon.However, the Hebrew Calendar has been figured mathematically ever since Hillel II.In a Regular Year, 30 and 29 day months alternate. Nisan starts with 30.In a Complete Year: 1 day is added to Cheshvan.In a Deficient Year: 1 day is removed from Kislev.In a Leap Year, 1 month is added before Adar, and the regular Adar is then called Adar II, in which Purim is celebrated. The extra month is added in the 3rd, 6th, 8th, 11th, 14th, 17th and 19th years of the 19-year cycle.THE POSTPONEMENTS“Rule 1“If the time of the molad is after noon, Rosh Hashana is postponed to the next day.
“Rule 2“If Rosh Hashana would fall on a Sunday, Wednesday or Friday, then it is postponed to the next day. If it has already been postponed to Sunday, Wednesday or Friday by Rule 1, it is thus postponed for two days.
“The reason for this rule is that if Rosh Hashana fell on a Wednesday or Friday, then Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), which is on 10th Tishri, would be a Friday or Sunday. Since both Yom Kippur and the Sabbath, which occurs every Saturday, are days when virtually all work is forbidden, it would be very inconvenient to have them on consecutive days. However, it is all right for Yom Kippur and the Sabbath to coincide, as then they are only one day.
“If Rosh Hashana fell on a Sunday, then Hoshana Rabba, which is 21st Tishri, would be a Saturday, the Sabbath. It is traditional on that day to walk seven times round the Synagogue carrying a palm branch; this ritual could not be performed on the Sabbath.
“This rule is often called Lo ADU Rosh. "Lo" is the Hebrew for "no". "ADU" represents the first, fourth and sixth letters of the Hebrew alphabet, and means that Rosh (Hashana) cannot fall on the first, fourth or sixth days of the week.
“If these were the only postponement rules, it would be possible for an ordinary year to have 356 days or a leap year to have 382 days. To avoid this, there are two further rules.
“Rule 3“If the calculated day of the New Moon is Tuesday, the calculated time is at least 9 hours 204 chalakim, and the year will be ordinary, the New Year is postponed; it cannot be on Wednesday by Rule 2 so it is moved to Thursday.
“Molad Tishri of the following year will fall on Saturday at or after 18hr (noon), so by rules 1 and 2 the next Rosh Hashana would be postponed to Monday. Without this rule, the year would then have 356 days. This rule ensures that it has only 354.
“A year postponed by this rule always becomes type 4, and the previous year becomes type 7 or 12, depending on whether itis an ordinary or a leap year.
“Rule 4
If the calculated day of the New Moon is Monday, the calculated time is at least 3 hours 589 chalakim, and the year will be the year after a leap year, the New Year is postponed to Tuesday.
Molad Tishri of the previous leap year fell on or after Tuesday at 18hr (noon), so by rules 1 and 2 the previous Rosh Hashana was postponed to Thursday. Without this rule, that year would then have had only 382 days. This rule ensures that it has 383.
“A year postponed by this rule always becomes type 3, and the previous year becomes type 11.”
The Torah Calendar has Sep 25, 2014 for Rosh Chodesh. If you are working with dates back in 30 AD, use this calendar.> > Daniel 8:14 does not state 2300 days. It does state 2300 evenings (`ereb ) and mornings (boqer ). The word "day" in Hebrew is "Strong's H3117" - yowm.
> > Dan 8:14 And he saith unto me, Till evening -- morning two thousand and three hundred, then is the holy place declared right.
> > Now the first use of the word "day" is found in Genesis 1:5. (The word yowm is used for both "days.")
> > Gen 1:5 and God calleth to the light 'Day,' and to the darkness He hath called 'Night;' and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day one.
> > So here you have God calling both "light," and "evening /morning," as the word day. Now I am not a Hebrew scholar, and it would be great to have Jovial's input, but I can see that you can easily argue that Daniel 8:14 could be saying that there are 2300 evenings and 2300 mornings; or there are only 2300 total things that are known as evenings and mornings.
> > So you need to know what are the evenings/mornings. In the Hebrew it is the "continual. "There are many things in the Scripture relating to the Temple worship that are called the continual. But only two of them might be referred to as the evening and morning. Now the word "sacrifice," is appropriately italicized to indicate that it is not in the original text. But the two things that were to be continued both in the evening and morning were the sacrifices on the altars. The blood sacrifice was on the altar that was not in the sanctuary. Daniel eight is talking about activity in the sanctuary just like Revelation 11:2. Therefore, Daniel is speaking about the altar of incense and the sacrifice of prayer and praise that is performed each evening and morning. There is a lot of activity at the altar of incense before God the Father in the book of Revelation also. Daniel 8:14 is talking about 2300 of these offerings, which would be 1150 consecutive days.To me, one evening and one morning equals one day, so I take this as 2300 days. Their days start at 6 PM in the evening. After that are 24 hours, which include 12 hours of night and then 12 hours of day.Dan 8:26 says, “And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days.”Gen 1:5 shows us how to take this. It says, “And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.”Dan 8:13 (KJV) says, "How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?Dan 8:14 says, "And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.Dan 8:26 says, "And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days."Genesis 1 shows us how to take this.Gen 1:5 says, "And God called the light Day, and the darkness hecalled Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day."Gen 1:8 says,"And the evening and the morning were the second day."Gen 1:13 says,"And the evening and the morning were the third day."Gen 1:19 says,"And the evening and the morning were the fourth day."Gen 1:23 says,"And the evening and the morning were the fifth day."Gen 1:31 says,"And the evening and the morning were the sixth day."Dan 8:14 says, "Unto two thousand and three hundred days (i.e., 2300 days); then shall the sanctuary be cleansed."Dan_8:26 says,"And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days."Agape,Marilyn Ageeprophecycorner.theforeverfamily.com