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When is Nisan fourteen in 2020 (Jewish Calendar Year 5780)?

New Moon in the Western Sky begins the lunar month.

The Jewish Agenda consists of 12 lunar months of 29.5 days each, bringing the "render of the year" in 354 days, falling brusk by xi and ane-quarter days of the solar yr length.  Then the outset problem in determining the date is to choose which new moon will marker the offset month of the sacred year (as opposed to the outset of the agricultural year which is 6 months latter).

In the iv^th century of our common era the rabbi Hillel II established an official Jewish Agenda that has been in utilise since and then.  A 13^th lunar month is added 7 times in nineteen years to brand upward the shortfall.  The long years (thirteen months) occur at the stop of years 3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17 and xix in the cycle, which is named for the Greek astronomer, Meton, who first devised it in the fifth century before our common era.

This cycle design is similar to the black keys on the piano, representing the grouping of long years.

Pianoforte Key pattern of xiii-calendar month years in xix year Metonic Bicycle

This ways that past simply observing the calendar, nosotros tin can determine which years correspond to this blueprint of long years.  Since the 20th century the first yr on the Jewish agenda in the 19-year groups began in 1902, and again in 1921, 1940, 1959, 1978, 1997, and 2016. The first 13-calendar month twelvemonth of the electric current cycle occurred in 2019, corresponding with C# on the piano scales as year 3.

Jehovah'south Witnesses accept followed this same blueprint since the first Globe War.  However, their starting time yr in the cycle occurs 14 years afterward the Jewish system, or 5 years earlier in the over-lapping scale of fourth dimension. So in 2020, the Jewish calendar is at year five (12 months), while the Witnesses are at twelvemonth ten (likewise 12 months.)  The mis-matches betwixt the 2 parallel systems occur in years 1, 9 and 12 of the Jewish system, when those years are brusque, whereas the Witnesses are observing long years half-dozen, 14, and 17 at the same corresponding fourth dimension.  Too, while the Jews are observing adar-adar, their 13th month in their years iii and 14, Witnesses are starting Nisan a month before. This means that although Witnesses claim to follow the Jewish passover for Nisan 14, in 5 out of 19 years, at that place is a calendar month difference in setting the appointment for Nisan 14.

According to this for 2020 (5780) both systems have a short year, with Nisan starting with the new moon simply afterwards the leap equinox.  That astronomical conjunction  of the moon and the sun will occur at 11:29 am on March 24^th (28^thursday day of the Jewish month Adar) Jerusalem time, with the sunday setting simply before 6 pm. In order for a star or a dark face moon to be visible, the lord's day must be at least viii degrees below the horizon, and the body observed must be 3 degrees higher up the horizon.  Therefore, the new moon will not exist visible in Jerusalem that evening, even with the best weather condition, and the adjacent twenty-four hour period will be the 29th of Adar.

The moon moves to the left of the sun when the sun is high in the heaven in its daily arc, or it appears to rising in a higher place it at sunset at the charge per unit of one diameter per hour or 0.508 degrees of arc out of 360.  Therefore to separate from the sunday past the required 11 degrees, at least 22 hours of time must expire subsequently the time of conjunction or point of passing in the observed sky.

Sunset the next evening in Jerusalem on March 25th will occur at 5:54 pm local time (GMT+2), when the lord's day will descend below the horizon. 30-2 minutes afterwards the sun will be eight degrees below the horizon, simply the lunar month'southward astronomical age will be 30.v hours sometime, placing the moon nigh seven degrees above the horizon, allowing for a visual sighting.  Therefore, Witnesses will start their month of Nisan at sunset on Wednesday March 25^th.  This means that Nisan 14 volition begin at sunset on Tuesday, April seven^thursday, which is the evening ready for the Memorial observance at Kingdom Halls and places of coming together.

(The above data is posted for the purposes of explaining the astronomy and agenda behind the setting of the date in 2020.  It is not to advocate omnipresence at the general non-partaking of the Lord'due south Supper at the Kingdom Halls.  Nor is it to abet that evening of April vii as the merely right date for the Lord's Supper.  In Mathew'due south account Jesus makes no mention of memorializing his decease past this communion fellowship, just rather he institutes a covenant of inclusion in his Kingdom with its partakers of his body and blood in the emblems of unleavened bread and red wine.  For farther scriptural proof of the early Christian practice of gathering together in homes for congregation meetings and love feasts, encounter textile below, offset published in "The Christian Quest" Journal, Vol ane, No one – Thousand James Penton, Editor  by permission.  Besides see TheChristianQuest.org )

HOW OFTEN?

past William E. Eliason

A Note on the Force of The Greek Phrase ὁσάκις ἐὰν at 1 Corinthians 11:25,26 and its Bearing on the Commemoration of the Lord'southward Supper:

At 1 Corinthians xi:25 (Rotherham), Paul quotes Jesus as maxim: "This do ye, as oftensoever as ye drink it in remembrance of me." This quotation of our Lord's words at the establishment of the Memorial Supper is similar to that establish in Luke'southward Gospel (22: 19), but here Paul supplies the phrase ὁσάκις ἐὰν (hosakis ean ) which is not given by whatsoever of the Evangelists, merely undoubtedly was a function of the revelation which the apostle declares he received from the Lord himself. (one Cor. xi:23) Paul repeats the phrase which is usually translated "as often as" in verse 26, in referring to the observance of the Supper in the church.

For ii reasons the Greek phrase in question will repay a closer study than has heretofore been given it among many Bible students. First, in most none of our translations is the strength of the particle ἐὰν expressed (the literal Rotherham beingness a notable exception). The larger lexicons exercise bring information technology out, just few accept access to those works or facility in their use. And, 2nd, the true meaning of ὁσάκις ἐὰν may throw light upon a subject on which there is so much of opinion and so little of factual cognition (to be derived from the Bible or any other source), namely, the question: What was the practice in the apostolic church with respect to how often the Lord's Supper should exist historic?

A Truthful MEANING

The meaning of ὁσάκις ἐὰν as given in Thayer's Lexicon (folio 456) is: "every bit often soever equally," with which other eminent regime concord. For instance, Robinson gives "withal often." The give-and-take ὁσάκις means: "as oftentimes every bit," and the particle ἐὰν is by and large equivalent to "soever." The phrase, then, can only mean indefinite frequency, as stated by many of the foremost scholars. A reference to Rev. 11:6 (the only other occurrence of this phrase) volition settle the matter for most students. At that place the witnesses have power "to smite the globe with all plagues, every bit often soever equally they desire."

THE CUSTOM OF THE CORINTHIANS

Paul writes to the Corinthians: "For as oftentimes soever equally ye eat this breadstuff, and drink this cup, ye practise show the Lord's death till He come up." From the context (1 Cor, eleven:20-22,33,34), it appears that in the Corinthian church the Lord'due south Supper was partaken of at the close of a social repast (an agapé or "beloved feast"), and then perhaps rather frequently. Nosotros discover that the apostle lays downwardly no rule every bit to the time, but but equally to the manner of the observance. A note by One thousand.One thousand. Findlay in The Expositor'south Greek Attestation gives ὁσάκις ἐὰν its proper forcefulness: "Our Lord prescribed no prepare times; Paul assumes the celebration volition be frequent, for he directs that however frequent, it must be guided past the Lord'south instructions so as to keep the remembrance of him unimpaired."

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