{"id":229,"date":"2004-09-18T11:54:58","date_gmt":"2004-09-18T19:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/?p=229"},"modified":"2004-12-13T06:47:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-13T14:47:00","slug":"for-calendar-geeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"For calendar geeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hat-tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebronsteins.com\/\">Avraham Bronstein<\/a> for the link to <a href=\"http:\/\/individual.utoronto.ca\/aribrodsky\/index.html\">\u201cHow is this year different from all other years?\u201d<\/a> Sample quotation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This year 5765 is the only year in all of history whose \u201ckeviut\u201d (year-type determination) involves dechiyyat BeTU-TaKPaT at the end of the year, and whose Pesach falls on April 24.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The &#8220;exercise for the reader&#8221; in section M.7 has been bothering me: &#8220;There is one other situation [apart from Shushan Purim on Shabbat] where the same haftara can be read on two consecutive Shabbatot.  Figure out what it is.&#8221; The only answer I can think of is rather contrived: an ethnically mixed congregation does Sephardi and Ashkenazi readings on alternate weeks, and so reads <a href=\"http:\/\/mechon-mamre.org\/p\/pt\/pt1311.htm#7\">&#8220;\u05d5\u05e2\u05de\u05d9 \u05ea\u05dc\u05d5\u05d0\u05d9\u05dd \u05dc\u05de\u05e9\u05d5\u05d1\u05ea\u05d9&#8221;<\/a> for Parshat Vayyetze on a Sephardi week, and then reads it again for Parshat Vayyishlah on Ashkenazi week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hat-tip to Avraham Bronstein for the link to \u201cHow is this year different from all other years?\u201d Sample quotation: This year 5765 is the only year in all of history whose \u201ckeviut\u201d (year-type determination) involves dechiyyat BeTU-TaKPaT at the end of the year, and whose Pesach falls on April 24. The &#8220;exercise for the reader&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}