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  • #1926060
    ubiquitin
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    Thanks DY!

    #1926106
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    Ubiquitin, you’re welcome.

    Reb Eliezer, I don’t think so. I think the reason to continue to say ותן טל ומטר is based on him following the צבור in א”י since he is considered a בן א”י (see בה”ט and שערי תשובה).

    #2032230
    ubiquitin
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    oh
    ha

    Never mind It was on page 2
    I feel silly

    I guess Ive done sillier things than thank twice

    #2032225
    ubiquitin
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    The daf * reminded me of this thread

    DY
    Thanks for the mareh makom last year. I saw it and appreciated then I thought I replied

    (* and date Nov 22 which is the date mentioned in the Beis Yosef as the start day (not date as the start was the previous night) of Vesein tal umatar, however this date is not today obviously, as we do not start vesein tal umatar today)

    #2032300

    There is a fascinating discussion there about rain being on par with giving of Torah, etc. I think what Gemorah is saying that natural sustenance that Hashem provides is no less miraculous than big events, and we need to pay attention and be grateful and study them. Appropriately, this is followed by a scientific discussion where the rain is being formed.

    #2032631
    Reb Eliezer
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    It says קשה פרנסתו של אדם כקריעת ים סוף, the support is a daily miracle just as the splitting of the sea. The support is like rain a revival as עני חשוב כמת a poor person is considered like not being alive. The Jews were revived at kabolas hatorah. The second bracha of shemonei esrei reflects this as explained by the Tur through the acronym מפתח – מטר, פרנסה, תחיה, חיה. Rain revives plantations where the seeds are first destroyed. Support mentioned above. Resurrection is obvious and by giving birth.

    #2037649
    Reb Eliezer
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    Say Tal Umotor this motzei shabbos Dec 4.

    See:

    The Change This Motzai Shabbos

    #2134638
    Reb Eliezer
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    Say in CH’L Vesein Tal Umotor, Sunday night, Dec 4

    #2143624
    Reb Eliezer
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    The reason we must adjust the Tekufas Tishri by 13 days because Pope Gregory in 1582 created a Gregorian calendar over Julian Caesar’s calendar by adjusting the calendar by 10 days. The other days difference had to do with a leap year for a complete century. Years divisible by 4 should be a leap year. The complete century is a hundred years. He changed it that only if is divisible by 400 will be a leap year. The years 1600 and 2000 were ok; The years 1700, 1800 and 1900 were not leap years any more. This makes the difference of another 3 days for a total of 13 days. This year the Sept tekufa (Tekufas Tishri) is Sept 22 or 265th day in the year. Adding the 13 days makes it 278. Sixty days from the tekufa is 338 which is Dec 4 in 2022.

    #2143665
    ubiquitin
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    RE

    I don’t fully understand this minhag we have of repeating the same thing every year

    “This year the Sept tekufa (Tekufas Tishri) is Sept 22 ”

    This is not correct

    Tekufas Tishrei according to Shmuel this year was Oct 7 at 3 PM*. 60 days later (starting with Fri Oct 7 as day #1**) gives you Monday Dec 5th as day #60. We start Vesein Tal umatar on Monday. Monday begins Sunday night Dec 4th.

    * If for some reason you want to use the Julian Calendar, though I’m not sure why since it isn’t really in use today, then the Tekufa was Sep 24 (Oct 7 – 13 days = Sep 24) not Sep 22

    ** This mistake has been pointed out before, when counting Halachic days DAY # 1 is (almost?) always counted. A baby has his bris at eight days old. For a baby born today , if you ask some guy on the street when is he 8 days old ? They would likely say: “1 day old tomorrow Thurs, 2 day old Fri … 8 days old next Thursday” As you know they would be wrong, TODAY is day 1, tomorrow day 2 … Day 8 is next wed. Ditto for 7 days of sehva berachos, shiva, sheloshim etc day # 1 counts . Same thing here When counting 60 days the day of the tekufa is day #1

    #2143680
    takahmamash
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    Of course, if you all lived where you’re supposed to be living, this entire discussion would be moot.

    #2143707
    Reb Eliezer
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    ubi, why do we follow Shmuel (Sept 24) and not science (Sept 22)? Is science incorrect here?

    #2143729
    ubiquitin
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    We don’t general follow “science” in halachic matters
    We follow science as handed down by the Chachmei Hamesorah.

    Shmuel’s Tekufa isn’t Sept 24, it is Oct 7 (until 2100 when it will be Oct 8)

    That said , there is a more accurate Tekufa of Rav Ada Which was shortly before midnight Sunday Sep 25 which is obviously closer to 9/22 than Oct 7 is *

    The Chazon Ish explains that the reason why we don’t use it for vesein tal umatar is that it is too complicated for the massess. We all need to figure out when to say vesein tal umatar, same goes for birchas hachama. So we use a simpler albeit less accurate calculation that is “close enough” (He explains that Shmuel isnt arguing on Rav Ada, of course Shmuel new his calendar was innacurate in Berachos he says he knew the paths of stars like the roads of Neharda)

    However for the calendar which is given over to chachamim we use the more complicated tekufa of Rav Ada

    *
    The reason why this is off by more than you might expect, is that Jewish Tekufos assume 4 equal periods
    That of Shmuel assumes 365 days & 6 hrs or 365.25 days a season is 1/4 of that = 91 days 7.5 hr
    That of Rav Ada assumes a year lasts 365.24682 days a season is 1/4 of that
    (For comparative purposes The Gregorian Calendar assumes a year lasts 365.24250 days (Note this too is a bit too slow and will eventually need to be adjusted as the calendar is sliding forward by one day every 3323 years))
    However the astronomical seasons are not of equal length. This is becasue the Earth’s trip around the sun is not a crcle it is an ellipse so the seasons are not equal I found these values online: Spring = 92 days, 19 hours; summer = 93 days, 15 hours; autumn,= 89 days, 20 hours; winter= 89 days, zero hours. Thus while the Gregorian and Astronomical YEARS are very close to that of Rav Ada. The SEASONS are off by a few days

    #2143797
    ubiquitin
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    RE

    point of clarification

    you said ” why do we follow Shmuel (Sept 24) and not science (Sept 22)? Is science incorrect here?”

    Those two Septembers are not the same

    To be consistent The question should be
    Using Gregorian dates:
    ” why do we follow Shmuel (Oct 7) and not science (Sept 22)? Is science incorrect here?”

    or
    Using Julian dates
    ” why do we follow Shmuel (Sept 24) and not science (Oct 5)? Is science incorrect here?”

    (I prefer the first way since we use the Gregorian calendar thus we are more familiar with it )

    #2143818
    ubiquitin
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    Oops made a big mistake in my last post

    corrected here:

    RE

    point of clarification

    you said ” why do we follow Shmuel (Sept 24) and not science (Sept 22)? Is science incorrect here?”

    Those two Septembers are not the same

    To be consistent The question should be
    Using Gregorian dates:
    ” why do we follow Shmuel (Oct 7) and not science (Sept 22)? Is science incorrect here?”

    or
    Using Julian dates
    ” why do we follow Shmuel (Sept 24) and not science (Sep 9)? Is science incorrect here?”

    (I prefer the first way since we use the Gregorian calendar thus we are more familiar with it, and in fact in my first version of this post I made a mistake with the Julian date )

    #2143819
    Reb Eliezer
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    ubi, thanks for your explanation.

    #2143816

    I never knew that summer is longer than winter! (in northern hemisphere). one more thing to thank Hashem for.

    #2143918
    ubiquitin
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    RE
    Sure, my pleasure
    it is a topic I find fascinating

    #2144238
    Reb Eliezer
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