<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 7:30 AM, saul newman via Avodah <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:avodah@lists.aishdas.org" target="_blank">avodah@lists.aishdas.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">since these holidays are nidche in any year pesach doesnt start on thurs, does anyone know when this practice developed? was it encoded this way already in the 50's?</div>
</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">To be precise, they are only nidche if Pesah starts on Tuesday, like this year. If it starts on Shabbat or Sunday they are brought forward to Wednesday & Thursday. If my memory is accurate, the bringing forward has always been in practice, but the postponement from Sunday-Monday to Monday-Tuesday was introduced later, within the last 10 or 20 years. When I was first in Israel in the 1980s, YHA was still sometimes observed on a Monday.<br></div></div>