Day (8 Oct 2013) "Start of Hanukkah to fall on Thanksgiving for only time in next 79,000 years..."
If this
event won't occur for another 79,000 years, wouldn't a first and logical thought
be to wonder if the current Jewish calendar year is simply 'off;' that it
has been inaccurately calculated?
Many prophecy-watching Christians and certain segments
of religious Jews have been considering just that possibility.They believe that the start of the
Jewish Civil Year at Rosh Hashanah was a month too early this year and had it
been correctly counted, Rosh Hashanah (New Year's) would be in early October,
somewhere between the 6th and 8th.
As Thanksgiving is Thursday, November 28, 2013, by this
method of counting, Hanukkah would be celebrated near Christmas.The combination of Christmas and
Hanukkah seems to happen with much greater frequency; Wiki Answers says that in
the last 100 years, one unspecified day of Hanukkah,(any one of the eight days)
falling on Christmas has occurred 50 times. (http://wiki.answers.com/)
Are the Jewish High Holy Days just beginning now or were
they in early September and already concluded?
Gobble tov!
American Jews ready for
Thanksgivukkah
By LEANNE
ITALIE
NEW YORK (AP)
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Posted: Oct 07, 2013 1:13 PM EDT
Updated: Oct 07, 2013 1:14 PM
EDT
It's a
turkey. It's a menorah. It's Thanksgivukkah!
An extremely
rare convergence this year of Thanksgiving and the start of Hanukkah has created
a frenzy of Talmudic proportions.
There's the
number crunching: The last time it happened was 1888, or at least the last time
since Thanksgiving was declared a federal holiday by President Lincoln, and the
next time may have Jews lighting their candles from spaceships 79,043 years from
now, by one calculation...
...While the
whole thing is lots of fun, is there anything truly cosmic happening
here?
Well, there's
Comet ISON, which is scheduled to pass close by the sun on Thanksgiving this
year and may provide a nice show — possibly even during daylight. Or not, since
comets can't always be counted on.