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Rabbi Kenneth Auman pointed out to me that there was an article in Hakira that dealt extensively with this controversy. It is at</div>
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<h3 style="display:block;margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:2px" class="title"><a style="line-height:26px" class=" d-ib ls-05 fz-20 lh-26 td-hu tc va-bot mxw-100p" href="https://hakirah.org/Vol20Ajdler.pdf" target="_blank" data-eaa="6242fa1c87e90">A Short History
of the Jewish Fixed Calendar: The ... - Hakirah</a></h3>
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Here is what the article says about this.</div>
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VIII The Dispute of R’ Sa’adia Gaon and Ben Meir</div>
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<div>On Hoshana Rabbah 921 C.E. The Palestinian Gaon Ben Meir or his son</div>
<div>proclaimed on the Mount of Olives that the months of Marheshvan and</div>
<div>Kislev of 4682 would be defective. As a result Passover 922 would fall on</div>
<div>Sunday instead of the following Tuesday if the year had been made full.</div>
<div>And in fact, in 922 the Jews of Palestine and probably the communities</div>
<div>in Egypt celebrated Passover on Sunday, two days before the Jews of Babylonia.</div>
<div>This split between the communities of Palestine and Babylonia</div>
<div>caused considerable agitation throughout world Jewry. References to this</div>
<div>event can be found in non-Jewish documents. The Syrian Elias of Nissibis131</div>
<div>wrote that in the year 1232 of the Seleucid era132 dissension broke</div>
<div>out between the Jews of the West (Palestine) and those of the East (Babylonia)</div>
<div>with regard to the calculation of their holiday. The Jews of the</div>
<div>West celebrated Rosh Hashanah 4683 on a Tuesday and those of the East</div>
<div>celebrated it on the next Thursday.133 Similarly the Karaite Sahal ben</div>
<div>Mazliah134 also referred this event and sought to prove from this controversy</div>
<div>that the rabbinic calendar calculations were groundless. According</div>
<div>Gatrad and in Tishrei 4684 there was the postponement Yah, therefore the
<div>keviyah of the three years 4682, 4683 and 4684 were then: .בחג, הכז, השג</div>
<div>By contrast, the Molad of the Palestinians was 642 ḥal less and there was</div>
<div>no postponement in Tishrei 4683 and 4684 and the keviyah of the three</div>
<div>years 4682, 4683 and 4684 were: זשג, גכה, החא .. Furthermore the astronomical</div>
<div>situation was exceptional on Rosh Hashanah 4683: the true conjunction</div>
<div>occurred about 1.5 hours after sunset on Monday evening. The</div>
<div>lunar latitude was about 5°, an exceptional fact, the moon was seen on</div>
<div>Tuesday evening in Egypt, in Palestine and even in Babylonia.</div>
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<div>See the above URL for this article for much, much more.</div>
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to the Babylonian Molad, in Tishrei 4683 there was the postponement<br>
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