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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: ten tal u'matar
Message-ID: <970@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 00:39:48 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 10 00:39:48 1985
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Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: why solar?

I've always wondered about this one.
To my knowledge, this is the only instance in all of Jewish
observance where the solar calendar, rather than the lunar
(Jewish) calendar, is used to define a date; hence it's always
December 4.

Why?

Dave Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
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