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New Moon Day | Introduction

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QUIZ

    • Yes, Scripture offers a detailed explanation of exactly how New Moon Day is to be calculated.
    • No, Scripture does not offer a clear explanation of exactly how New Moon Day is to be reckoned.
    • Our gut feeling
    • Our pastor
    • The weight of evidence
    • The Karaites
    • Rabbinical teaching
    • When the first visible crescent is seen in the western sky after sunset
    • Immediately after its conjunction with the sun
    • At conjunction (also called the 'Astronomical New Moon')
    • 18 hours after the lunar-solar conjunction
    • True
    • False
    • At conjunction
    • Immediately after conjunction takes place
    • Immediately after the first visible crescent is seen
    • Immediately before conjunction takes place
    • Immediately after the full moon
    • Always
    • Sometimes
    • Never
    • A day cannot simultaneously be part of the old month and part of the new month. The day that conjunction takes place is part of the old month because it began before conjunction took place.
    • The decision to make the day after conjunction New Moon Day, as opposed to the actual day that conjunction takes place, is arbitrary; it is simply a matter of convenience.
    • Sunset following the sighting of the young crescent
    • The first dawn after the lunar-solar conjunction
    • The same day that the lunar-solar conjunction takes place
    • On the fixed Gregorian dates declared and observed by the modern Jews
    • On the first day of each Gregorian month
    • The specific method of reckoning is not important.
    • Yes
    • No