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