[Avodah] The Molad of Tamuz

[Zev Sero]

On 01/07/18 22:56, Richard Fiedler wrote:
> I don’t think we need to get into a semantic argument. This is a list in 
> English. We should all agree that a day in a Hebrew discussion begins 
> with sunset.

No, it does not.  When you agree to meet someone at 10PM on Sunday you 
do not mean motzoei shabbos, you mean Sunday night, or leyom Sheni. If 
you show up on motzoei shabbos the other person will not be there.  If 
you announce in English "The molad will be on Thursday at 7pm" everyone 
understands you to mean Thursday evening, not Wednesday evening.  That 
is a simple fact.  The same would be true if the announcement were in 
Yiddish or even Hebrew.


> 
> On the website of Beit El Yeshiva Center, https://www.yeshiva.co/calendar/moladot, it states for Zman HaMolad:
> 
> "the Molad of Month Tammuz
> will be on on the Night of Thursday
> 0 hours and 97 parts 
> at 18:05, and7 parts"

That is just poor English on the part of whoever programmed the page. 
It is a mistranslation of "leil chamishi", or "or leyom chamishi", which 
means *Wednesday* night.  It's just as wrong as those amusing 
mistranslations we pass around such as "clean for fear of foreskin".

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