[Avodah] bavel leadership

[Zev Sero]

On 16/12/2010 8:39 PM, Micha Berger wrote:

> As for the 364 day calendar... It would fit the gemara's description of
> the Tzeduqi understanding of the omer -- albeit probably not as your
> rebbe taught it in school. "Mimakharas haShabbos" doesn't mean the
> Sunday after the first day of Pesach, regardless of when it falls out,
> but that the first day of Pesach must be Shabbos!

AIUI the Tzeduki (and Kara'i) rule is that the Omer is brought on the
first Sunday of Chag Hamatzos, even if that is the first day.  That's
how they explain the pasuk in Yehoshua which is so puzzling when trying
to fit it into our notion of when the Omer is to be brought; they say
that that year the 15th of Nissan must have been a Sunday, and so the
Omer was brought then, and Chadash could be eaten.


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