[Avodah] The Molad

[Zev Sero]

On 21/12/20 4:29 pm, Prof. L. Levine via Avodah wrote:
> It has been pointed out to me that "The Molad announcement isn't based 
> on solar time, as there's no nighttime solar time.

That's false.  There certainly is solar time at night, and the molad is 
reported in that system.


> a constant interval cycle that is widely but incorrectly regarded as
> an approximation of the time in Jerusalem of the mean lunar
> conjunction.
"Incorrectly"?! Citation needed.


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