The forthcoming New Year is 5776 on the Hebrew calendar. 5776 can be factored into 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 19 x 19. That is 76 x 76. It is also 304 x 19. So 5776 = 304 19-year sun-moon cycles of the Hebrew calendar.
The Hebrew lunar year is about 11 days shorter than the solar cycle and uses the 19-year Metonic cycle <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonic_cycle> to bring it into line with the solar cycle, with the addition of an intercalary <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercalation_(timekeeping)> month (Adar I) every two or three years, for a total of seven times per 19 years. The Metonic cycle is described at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonic_cycle Adar I is added in the 3rd, 6th, 8th, 11th, 14th, 17th and 19th years of the cycle. There is a cute piano keyboard illustration of which 7 years of the 19 year cycle contain a leap month at http://www.jewfaq.org/calendar.htm 5776 begins at sunset on 13 September 2015 and ends at sunset on 2 October 2016. So this coming year is a Hebrew leap year with an extra month, Adar I. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_calendar Happy New Year, Izzy Israel A Cohen [email protected]
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