Jewish Calendar Seminar

Time: Tuesday, 4-5 pm
Place: Computer Center Building, room 268



Academic Year 5763 (2002-03), Semester A
 

Date Speaker Title
23 Marcheshvan
(Oct 29)
Yehuda Hershkowitz
(Jerusalem)
Theoretical and practical Halakha with regard to calendar making
30 Marcheshvan
(Nov 5)
Yaaqov Loewinger
(Tel-Aviv)
Which Tequfa is relevant to intercalation, and how (new aspects) - I
7 Kislev
(Nov 12)
Yaaqov Loewinger
(Tel-Aviv)
Which Tequfa is relevant to intercalation, and how (new aspects) - II
5 Tevet
(Dec 10)
Ariel Cohen
(Hebrew University)
A proposed solution to the riddle of the letter of Rosh Galuta from the year 4595
12 Tevet
(Dec 17)
Ariel Cohen
(Hebrew University)
The changes in the Jewish calendar in the 9th and 10th centuries, as a result of changes in astronomical knowledge
19 Tevet
(Dec 24)
Ari Belenkiy
(Bar-Ilan University)
A Talmudic puzzle and the Jewish calendar in the late third century
4 Shvat
(Jan 7, 03)
Daniel Michelson
(Weizmann Institute)
The time of birth of Izhak, the Exodus and their implication on the Jewish calendar