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size=2>From: rabbirichwolpoe@gmail.com<BR> <BR> >>
Also see above that the Aruch Laner that states "New moon is never<BR>visible in
the morning" <<<BR><BR>>>>>></FONT></DIV>
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size=2>Those of you with scientific knowledge -- is this true?
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size=2>Re Ber. 19:23, Sodom was destroyed as the sun rose. Rashi says
there it was the time when the sun and the moon are both in the sky (so that
sun-worshippers and moon-worshippers would both see that their gods could not
save them). A/S in a footnote says, "Each day the moon rises and sets about
fifty minutes later than the previous day. In the middle of the lunar
month when the moon is full, it rises at about sunset and sets at about
sunrise. Thus, on the dawn of the sixteenth of Nisan, the day on which
Sodom was destroyed, the sun and the moon are both visible at dawn." This
seems to indicate that only the full moon, but not the new moon, is visible
at dawn. </FONT></DIV>
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size=2>However, see this picture that I found of the new moon apparently visible
at dawn -- or perhaps this is just /before/ dawn and once the sun rises, the new
moon will no longer be visible?</FONT></DIV>
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href="http://thegreenbelt.blogspot.com/2009/05/sky-watch-new-moon-and-morning-star-2.html">http://thegreenbelt.blogspot.com/2009/05/sky-watch-new-moon-and-morning-star-2.html</A></DIV>
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