[Avodah] rare pesach

[Simon Montagu]

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 7:10 AM, <Saul.Z.Newman at kp.org> wrote:

>
> i know hter are calendar mavens out there.  it there are 3  different
>  simanim out of 14 possible year combinations  that  sunday pesach can fall
> on [ 1 meubar, 2 pshutim], why  is the frequency so rare?  what dchiah
> causes these combinations to be rare?


All other things being equal, you would expect Pesah to be on any day of the
week one year in 7, and it's on Sunday about 1 year in 9 on average, so it's
not really so rare, it just seems that way because other days are more
common.

In short, there is no dehhiya which postpones Pesah from Shabbat to Sunday
(unless you count Molad Zaken which takes away as many as it adds), and
GaTaRaD postpones from Sunday to Monday in about 1 year in 30.
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