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size=2>From: "Joseph Mosseri" <A
href="mailto:joseph.mosseri@verizon.net">joseph.mosseri@verizon.net</A><BR><BR>>>I
clearly remember Birkat HaHammah in 1981 and at the time we were taught<BR>that
this berakhah is recited once every 28 years when the sun is in the<BR>exact
position it was in when it was created at the time of
Ma'aseh<BR>Bereshit.<BR>....According to<BR>tradition Bereshit began on Rosh
Hodesh Nisan hence the 4th day (Wednesday)<BR>of Ma'aseh Bereshit when the sun
was created had to be on the 4th of Nisan.<BR>This berakhah must be recited on
the 4th of Nisan.<BR>What is the source and the reasoning to say that this year
we will recite it<BR>on Ereb Pesah the 14th of Nisan?</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Why would you think the *sun* reaches some previous position on the same
*lunar* date as it did the last time? </DIV>
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<DIV>As a matter of fact, the bracha is /not/ recited on the same Hebrew date
after each 28-day cycle.</DIV>
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<DIV>(Not that I know what it means anyway, that the sun is in the same position
as it was on the fourth day of Creation. Position vis-a-vis
what? Background constellations visible on earth? Place in the
Galaxy? In the Universe?)</DIV>
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<DIV>BTW you also seem to be neglecting the opinion that the world started in
Tishrei. So we don't even know for sure what date Yom Revi'i of Bereishis
was.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10"><BR><B>--Toby Katz<BR>==========<BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0
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