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theres supposed to be a supermoon tonight, since bnei yisroel is compared to the moon do you think theres any signifigance to it?
It will be tomorrow night I”YH when the levana will be full.
Oh. I opened the thread thinking it was about this:
The official full moon was 7:25am Shabbos morning so for the average person both Friday and saturday night looked full. It was brightest Friday night though was still very bright tonight as well.
There will be a supermoon for the coming 2 months of Av and Elul as well.
by BOB KING on SEPTEMBER 18, 2015
The average Earth-Moon distance is 240,000 miles (386,000 km), but on Sunday night our red-faced companion will edge within 221,752 miles (356,876 km) of Earth and appear 8% larger than normal. Will you be able to see the difference?
That’s nothing
This is the fourth of four lunar eclipses in a years time which is called a blood moon tetrad. A tetrad is very rare. I believe there have been only 7 tetrads in the last 2000 years.
The last one was 1967. The one before that was 1948. The one before that was 1492.
The first three of this years tetrad occurred on ( I can’t recall but all three were on Yom Tovim).
I don’t know anything else. Consult Google.
The fundamentalist Xan “prophets” are having a field day with this. A number of books have been written and countless articles, that this is heralding the end of the world, or the coming of Moshiach, or the end CV of Israel, or the triumph of Israel, the day of judgement etc.
Squeak, ??? ??? ??? ????.
Let us know when something comes up that hasn’t been discussed.
I was only complaining about the religious fanatic mumbo jumbo… there are several tetrads every century, not “7 in the last 2000 years”… a few of them may have coincided with significant dates in history, which is not at all surprising considering it hits 10-12 years of each 100… not to mention that plenty of equally significant events occurred when no tetrad or even single blood moon was in sight… trying to drum up fear that this somehow means the end of the universe – which is ridiculous, since we all know the end of the world will come from global warming. Superstitious drivel.
At least I wrote: “I believe” re the number 7.
Your 10-12 per century was pretty far off.
NASA lists the statistics on line
Last 15 centuries ranges from 0-8max occurrences tetrad per century. Average 3 per century. your figure was about 4x exaggerated.
My figure was about 7x enaggerated.
So you would win except you didn’t write: “I believe”
… not to mention that plenty of equally significant events occurred when no tetrad or even single blood moon was in sight
Speaking of drivel you know that that’s a completely illogical disproof of causality or correlation.
At least my drivel was merely speculative.
And potentially interesting
So there
I’m sorry squeak. Im just having fun.
Of course that recurring religious fanatic stuff is nothing but drivel.
But, (and as my sons Moreh once said causing an outburst of hysterical laughter), and this is a very big but,
It is not drivel that the Neviim said there will be celestial among other signs at the end of days.
A tetrad spans two years, so 5-6 tetrads results in 10-12 years. Pretty accurate per century figure.
I often post drivel, but not this.
Celestial events occur with great frequency. It is no trick to link an event to a celestial event that occurred in the same general time frame. I would think this to be obvious, but so many people seem to find mystical meaning in natural and predictable events that it that it clearly is not obvious to many. Perhaps our general education is lacking, and that is what causes our people to be superstitious.
Don’t think so.
NASA lists per century how many tetrads occurred in that century.
If two tetrads occurred between 1700 and 1800 then two tetrads occurred in that century.
I don’t care if each tetrad lasts 25 years.
you said YEARS per century, so you’re TECHNICALLY right.
But you’re wrong because you were arguing against my statement of 7 TETRADS. So you must have meant 10-12 tetrads but since at that point you assumed a tetrad lasted 1 year you simply used the more common term year instead of the unfamiliar tetrad. For there is no good reason to switch the subject from tetrads to years which are not identical, UNLESS YOU THOUGHT THEY WERE!
Then as you found yourself squirming under the vise of my gigantic intellect you came up with the 10-12 year defense. Good try! If not for my lightning fast grasp of your well disguised attempt at logical subterfuge you might have succeeded.
As I’ve said before, it will be a cold day in December before YOU can outsmart ME.
Hold on to your horses!
The eclipse begins (central time) at…….
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9:11 !!!
Well that celestial warning comes just 14 years too late. Bummer.
It’s a celestial warning of a future event following in sequence after a related past event.
You don’t know much about these things do you?
most disappointing. I saw the moon clearly last night at 9:11 CST
the moon is called super because theres no gravity and its easier to move.
And is it called Moon because the cow that made it got tired of “moo” and decided to mix things up a bit?
That’s nothing
This is the fourth of four lunar eclipses in a years time which is called a blood moon tetrad. A tetrad is very rare. I believe there have been only 7 tetrads in the last 2000 years.
The last one was 1967. The one before that was 1948. The one before that was 1492.
The first three of this years tetrad occurred on ( I can’t recall but all three were on Yom Tovim).
I don’t know anything else. Consult Google.
1) 1492 – Jews expelled from Spain
2) 1948 – The State of Israel arises from the ashes of the Shoah.
3) 1967 – Six Day War, liberation of the Kotel
4) 2015 – Moshiach????????
I don’t think we should ever take these things lightly. Whether or not the Blood Moon heralds anything, we should be all taking stock of ourselves and be the kind of people Hashem Wants us to be, so that we are worthy of those signs marking the coming of Moshiach.
I don’t take things lightly but I think this is an example of some people being impressed too easily. There were many other tetrads that you guys didn’t list, and even the ones you did list weren’t when you say they were. The 1948 one for example was in 1949-1950. The 1492 one was in 1493-1494.
When moshiach comes, we will find out from an internet post or a TV braodcast, not some nerdy astronomy event :p
And for those who are paying attention – last year the eclipse did not fall out on succos because our calendar was off by a day. The first day of succos 2014 was 16 days after the molad, not 15 which is when the eclipse occurred.
oomis This is the fourth of four lunar eclipses in a years time which is called a blood moon tetrad. A tetrad is very rare. I believe there have been only 7 tetrads in the last 2000 years. that sounds contradictory. Is a tetrad rare or not?
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