[Avodah] Yom Tov Sheni for Olim LeReget to the Beit Mikdash

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From: rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com

>>  Also see above that the Aruch Laner that states "New moon is never
visible in  the morning" <<

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Those of you with scientific knowledge -- is this true?  

 
Re Ber. 19:23, Sodom was destroyed as the sun rose.  Rashi says  there it 
was the time when the sun and the moon are both in the sky (so that  
sun-worshippers and moon-worshippers would both see that their gods could not  save 
them). A/S in a footnote says, "Each day the moon rises and sets about  
fifty minutes later than the previous day.  In the middle of the lunar  month 
when the moon is full, it rises at about sunset and sets at about  sunrise.  
Thus, on the dawn of the sixteenth of Nisan, the day on which  Sodom was 
destroyed, the sun and the moon are both visible at dawn."  This  seems to 
indicate that only the full moon, but not the new moon, is visible  at dawn.  
 
However, see this picture that I found of the new moon apparently visible  
at dawn -- or perhaps this is just /before/ dawn and once the sun rises, the 
new  moon will no longer be visible?
 
 
_http://thegreenbelt.blogspot.com/2009/05/sky-watch-new-moon-and-morning-sta
r-2.html_ 
(http://thegreenbelt.blogspot.com/2009/05/sky-watch-new-moon-and-morning-star-2.html) 
 

--Toby Katz
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