[Avodah] Did You Know?

Micha Berger micha at aishdas.org
Tue Apr 21 18:14:25 PDT 2009


On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 02:31:09PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
: A plurality, yes, but it's still a minority; most years, even if we
: confine ourselves to non-leap years, are *not* 355 days long.  So how
: can one say that "there are 355 days in a non-leap year"?

A year that's called "shaleim" and yet not "me'uberes" has 355. It
would seem to be more whole and normal than other shanos. (As opposed
to calling it a yeser or something.) Even if it doesn't constitute
the majority.

And I think this whole thing is being way overanalyzed.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha



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