[Avodah] omer - Rihal

[Michael Makovi]

> This also explains why it took Hillel to pasqen what to do on Shabbos
> erev Pesach. For many years, the Saducees prevented a qiddush hachodesh
> that would allow erev Pesach on any day but Friday.
>
> R' Micha

THANK YOU! Many works bring it as a great mystery that such a thing
could happen - Shabbat Erev Pesach is common enough on our calendar
that it shouldn't have been forgotten. I remembered seeing somewhere
that somehow, history had conspired for there to be some great number
of years without a Shabbat Erev Pesach, but I couldn't remember.

Do you know how long the Tzadukim were able to make erev pesach be
Friday every year? I have the number 200-something (years) in my head.

Mikha'el Makovi