I enjoy fellow brothers and sisters view points that are expressed on this site.  I am a follower of Yahuwah, who I believe to be the true name of The Most High.  We are commanded from His Torah to follow His marking of times and seasons not man's  The Rome church, under the creation of Constantine,  conveniently switched the day of worship from the seventh day to the first day.  They also mixed pagan days with religious days and took the body of the Messiah in another direction.  Like wise, the Jewish council also stopped following His days and created a calendar to mark their festivals for centuries into the future, something we were never to do.  

I say all that to explain the dates of this year.  This year the Jewish calendar should have had an extra month added which it didn't.  The small group that watches the barley being aviv were misled by a man who found some ripen  barley else where in Jerusalem.  Our commandment requires the barley to be ripe on the Temple Mound not just at an isolated location in Jerusalem.  Most of the lunar calendar watchers have been celebrating the Feast of Yahuwah a month earlier than what they should be.

This leads me to Dec 27, 2013. Following the calendar which should have had an extra month added makes the first day of Hanukkah Dec. 27, 2013 !  On that day, Comet Ison will make its closes approach to Earth!  While I'm not claiming that Ison has any Biblical references, we all know that many are watching the skies and are looking at this Comet with great anticipation.  I just thought it has to be more than a chance that Ison's closes approach to Earth is also on the true beginning of the Festival of Lights!  We may have quite a light show believers.