Biblically, Rosh Chodesh was determined by witnesses observing the first thin crescent of the moon. Rosh Chodesh is the New Moon, which is the start of each month. This ensures that the seasonal feasts keep to their correct season. The Jewish calendar is a lunar calendar, with twelve lunar months of 29 or thirty days, which is about ten days short of a solar year, so seven years in every nineteen have an extra month. With the Earth's progress around the Sun. Western calendar has to add a day ( 29th February ) to keep the calendar in step Lunar while the western calendar is Solar. To shift around relative to our, Western - Gregorian, calendar. And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years" Genesis 1:14 The Jewish Calendar
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