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https://yahadut.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/06-29-01.jpg16191080God created the luminaries – the sun and moon – and set them in motion. Ever since, people have used them to measure time. Days, nights, and years are established based on the sun. Months, the key to the timing of Jewish holidays, are based on the moon. This accords with the verse: “God said, ‘Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate day from night; they shall serve as signs for the set times – the days and the years’” (Genesis 1:14). Each lunar cycle, the moon completes one revolution around the earth. At the beginning of the month, we perceive the moon as just a sliver. Then it waxes, its apparent size gradually increasing until the middle of the month, when it appears as a complete circle, a full moon. During the second half of the month it wanes, disappearing from view entirely by ...