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Rabbi Ali Scharf discusses the structure and significance of the Jewish calendar.
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Welcome to small talk by farm chatter. I'm Naki Weinstein. [music] On this episode of Small Talk, I'm going to be joined once again by Rabbali Sharf and we'll be discussing his new book or rather countress Arzerua, a simplified study of the Jewish calendar in English published by Malaas distributed by Felheim. A year ago, Revali was on the podcast. We discussed say for oid brew onto now we'll be discussing as I said is contress although as I was joking off air with it is not really a contress I mean it is but it isn't it is you know in totality it comes out it's a hard coverver book it's with the calendars which we'll talk about it comes about 170 pages so it's a little small just I want to make sure the listeners don't think we're talking about a little 50 40 page pamphlet so thank you for joining me uh once again >> my pleasure >> let's start tell listeners about this book and why you decided to write this simplified study of the Jewish calendar. >> So, um the reason why I did it is I actually write about it in a very very short introduction um a very short introduction in the beginning of the book and uh I'll say it here now because it's uh it's it's really what what gave me the uh the inspiration to do this. So, when I was a boy and I was actually uh in my uh years so I I actually ended up marrying my wife uh at this where this story took place. Um so I came to the house and we were sitting and talking and it happened to be December 5th that that uh that day that I came to
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- 0:00Welcome to small talk by farm chatter. I'm Naki Weinstein. [music] On this episode of Small…
- 3:05fact that we're calculating our our calendar incorrectly and I was able to come back to…
- 6:10when we talk about the regular solar calendar. You start off, let me mention some of…
- 9:20will will come out on the run to I mentioned that there's a I'm sure we…
- 12:53very simple the milid the milled happens you know uh every roughly every 29 and a…
- 15:58cannot begin on certain days and of course that leads into low and there many rules…
- 19:04fit in there 56 paras we only have 50 weeks take away the shabas of and…
- 22:37to build a calendar is what year it is. So if I tell you build me…
- 25:41means you start counting from the first Sunday after pes what were they happening with our…
- 28:47are curious to hear last year you published brew. We talked about that. Anyone wants to…
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