[Avodah] A Shabbos of months? OR Two parallel cycles of Jewish year

[Micha Berger]

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 09:19:15PM -0700, Michael ORR wrote:
: And then if we can understand the 12 month-year as a composite of
: overlapping 7 month cycles, then it seems natural to try to extend this
: logic to a 24 hour day...

I find the notion of taking a year that is 12 months 11/19 of the time
and 13 months the other 7/19 and shoehorning it into the concept of cycles
of 7 to be too far of a stretch.

Shabbos is on day 7, 14, 21 -- no overlap.
Shavuos has a day 50 as a special case, one that may or may not be shared
by Yovel. Depending upon whether shemittah de'oraisa excludes the yovel
year (always on years 7, 14, 21, ... 42 and 49 on the yovel cycle)
or is an independent cycle.

But there is no maqor for overlapping cycles, particularly of inconsistent
length.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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