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When does the day begin?

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🌐 The Gezer Calendar When does the day begin? I debated this with a friend. I always believed the day started in the evening because in the Torah it states that evening and morning are the first day. But it dawned on me that the ancient Germans as well as the ancient Greeks also believed the day began in the evening. But modern Germans and modern Greek people do not think this way anymore. How come? The answer is obvious. The shift to the Gregorian calendar. If you use a lunisolar calendar the day must begin in the evening because the start of every month begins with the first waxing crescent. Your day has to start in the evening when you can observe the moon.  So the Talmud uses day one to prove that the day starts in the evening.  Gen. 1:5   God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day. But look at day six. Evening and morning were the sixth day. The next verse doesn't s...

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Leap Week by Harnek Singh חנוך עפיפון Every seven years a week is added to keep the Global Perennial Calendar in sync with the seasons and seven day weekly cycle. This occurs at the end of every Sabbatical. It's interesting that in the Gregorian, Samaritan and GPC calendar if the year is divisible by 7 than it is a Sabbatical year. For instance 2030 is a Sabbatical year because 7 goes into it 290 times. This trick doesn't work for January and February because the GPC calendar starts in the spring and not the dead of winter like in the Gregorian calendar. The seven day weekly cycle actually originates from ancient Judea probably during the era of King Solomon when the Phoenicians ruled. ¿Do you remember? I think every human on planet earth has a vague memory of this somewhere in that coconut. It's in your blood! It's the last time we were all connected. That's why there's a giant Hebrew decalogue in New Mexico - the Los Lunes Decalogue Stone, that's the Ameri...