<> If there really is something up with the Moon's motions and timings as some are reporting, one would think that the "Israel New Moon Society" http://www.geocities.com/royh_il/ would be the first to spot it! The first commandment given to the Israelites in the Wilderness was "This month for you is the beginning of months" (Exodus 12:2). Each month was publically declared after two witnesses testified to seeing the new moon to the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem. With the destruction of the Temple and loss of the Sanhedrin, Hillel II's masterful intercalary calendar has been used by Jews without change for 1700 years. But because a true repeating lunar-solar cycle occurs only once every 689,272 years, and that an absolute reconciliation of the lunar calendar with the solar year is an impossibility, unavoidable discrepancies in the calendar are now starting to be noticed. This society is practicing for the restoration of the Sanhedrin and the Third Temple, when the months will once again be declared by direct visual observation.