theme : when starts this biblical year ?
 
      … trying to keep this one as short and to the point as possible , okay  —
      reason for this page being that the situation is urgent and we need to know how long
      we still need to wait : until March – or even May – to reach the day of Unleavened ?
      yes ofcourse we’d like a sooner date , right , but we’ve to go by the book (sad pun ..)
      and please see the “strange fire” section as to why ‘Unleavened’
 
      the new moon and ‘the first barley’ : no ‘Space’ involved 
      to start , the scroll never mentions any connection of the moon with a star constellation
      but links the new moon that heralds the first month (‘Nisan’) to “the first ripened barley” ,
      so that factually the state of the barley decides the month in which Passover will happen ;
      for us that sounds a bit strange as why “crop” plays a so important role in this matter , 
      but to be fair – that is also because we in our days have lost the connection with farming
      since we have a complete unpersonal relation with this world directly around us ,
      having replaced that with a completely abstract mindset susceptible for ‘Space’ ; 
      but God had a good reason to nót link to ‘constellations’ : since that clock is Off ,
      and please see the section below as to why
     

the barley war        … once the dormant barley stárts to ripen        this process takes only 2-3 weeks to complete       and when taken into account that Passover        still is two weeks into the first month , it means       that “deciding which new moon starts Nisan” is        not always easy during unfavorable conditions ,          and in olden times the priests had to decide this        perhaps with help of the expertise of farmers ,

      but in our days the role of the priest has been taken over by several groups that each spring
      are examining the state of the first barley growing in the former land Ishral , where however
      each group cherishes different interpretations about the required state of the barley , often for 
      reason that it has to serve a certain preconceived calendar , ending up in inedible roasted 
      barley kernels — as the practice after presenting the barley ; if for example you go to the site
      torahcalendar com you can see why their barley ‘needs to be ready very early’   
         
      last year 2023 also we followed this theme when waiting for Unleavened , remember , 
      (yet here we are having to do that again …) and then decided that the first month should

start with the new moon at 20 April – causing a rather late Passover in May ; while at that same time someone found a quote from the historian Josephus about the start of the first month “when the sun is in Aries” which we  welcomed merely as a nice confirmation — however , because this year it is even more urgent to have the Unleavened date correct it turns out that we must drop the Josephus concept since it simply is not maintainable …

 
 
                                                                          the “sun in Aries” problem
 
      … unlike the self-declared ‘watchmen community’ we always rejected everything in ‘Space’
      [with exception of this moon because of her function as clock] simply because she is the sky 
      related to the dimension of Mystery-Babylon , is it not ; 
     so with the same carefulness we also must look to what exactly Josephus has said  —
      this historian wrote in around 100 AD in his “Antiquities of the Jews (sic)” the following ,
      (3.248) “In the month of Xanthicus, which is by us called Nisan, and is the beginning of our year, 
      on the fourteenth day of the lunar month, when the sun is in Aries, (for in this month it was that 
      we were delivered from bondage under the Egyptians,) the law ordained that we should every 
      year slay that sacrifice which I before told you we slew when we came out of Egypt, 
      and which was called the Passover.” ,
 
no Greek word for ‘the spring’
… ofcourse the Greeks did know the terms “winter” and “summer” but they had no phrase for the
season of “spring (-time)” , just saying “after winter” or “after summer” —
here , he starts mentioning “the beginning of our year” but since that was not the 1st of January 
as understood by his Greek contemporaries , he specifies the start of his year as the lunar month
in which “the sun is in Aries” , as another term for the start of the zodiacal year ;
 
now – though God never gave the first month a name she later became addressed as ‘Nisan’ ,
and in ancient Assyria and Babylon that same named month contained the Vernal Equinox
in the constellation in which the sun starts her year ,
as shown in a tablet from the 7-8th century BC , KAR 15 (now in the British Museum) :
“On the sixth day of the month Nisan the day and the night were equal. The day was six kasbu , 
and the night was six kasbu. May Nabu and Marduk be propitious unto the King my lord.”
[read : Thoth and Horus]  
… so the “equal day and night” is the Vernal Equinox — our March 20 — which fell within Nisan ;
however , húndreds of years later Nisan 1 had drifted Out of the equinox ,
shown by the next passage :
“Fathers Epping and Strassmaier (‘Astronomisches aus Babylon’ p.39) have translated three 
Babylonian calendars and from the eclipses mentioned in them, they have been able to deduce 
the Julian date for Nisan 1 in five years :
                                              124  BC   April 4
                                              123  BC   March 25
                                              122  BC   April 12                     
                                              111  BC    April 10
                                             110  BC    March 30 
 
the Time drift as ‘the precession of the equinoxes’ 
… you see above that 7-800 years later the month of Nisan did NOT contain the Equinox anymore
for reason of a slow Time drift because of a concept called ‘the precession of the equinoxes’ , 
by which the sun every 2600 years moves into a next (zodiacal-) constellation — 
after the age of Taurus followed the age of Aries , and since around 100 BC she starts in Pisces :
                                   Mar 12, 2015: Sun enters constellation Pisces (351.52o)                    [V-E]
                                   Apr  19, 2015: Sun enters constellation Aries   (29.03o)
                                   May 14, 2015: Sun enters constellation Taurus (53.41o)
                                   [2015 was available online] 
and you see that these dates are again much later than those mentioned in the Babylonian tablet ,
and note how “the new moon” – the most important – still has to happen áfter the April 19th date !
 
so what Josephus said was not wróng :
however , he just described the situation of “the sun starting in Aries” like she had done in all the
previous ages , ever since God gave the commandments at Sinai , and even fúrther back ;
but he did NOT give a manual for the same astronomical concept in our days !                                        <<<<<
for it would cause us problems with the barley :
in today’s former country Ishral the barley harvest — that is the “official” major harvest and not
the ‘searching for the first-ripe stalks by those groups’ — normally starts at the end of April [1] ,
however in the olden times this could have begun 7-10 days earlier because no conditions
for heavy machinery were required as a certain dryness of the crop , since the sheaves could 
be left to dry upon the land after having being harvested by sickle , 
therewith pushing the probable harvest to mid-April ;
this means that Passover can not have been fár from around that time especially since the
process of ripening happens within two or so weeks , where we must also must remember 
that Passover is still two weeks out after Nisan begins – so we’re at the start of April now ;
yet in óur days ,
this would make it increasingly Impossible to maintain a start date of ’19 April’ (see above)
since Aries would only run fúrther away during the course of time , until eventually we would
end up in the month of December !
that in previous year 2023 the Nisan moon coincided with the sun entering Aries (see pic)
only happened because the barley was one tad away from “being abib” so that this alignment
merely seemed a nice confirmation ; but today’s generation of ‘watchmen’ that are obsessed 
with Stellarium and the (non-existing-) signs in the heavens are outright dangerous : 
because of misunderstanding his quote they already started to show the Aries moon in May !
this is our curse :
you and we have to check everything , everything , personally :
never nothing we can trust whatever any soul will say because 100% of the time it will be Off ,
and we. can. not. afford. mistakes. considered our date — hoping that you agree
 
[subnote :
we can use “the precession of the equinoxes” only as ‘workable hypothesis’ : 
we don’t trust our eyes downhere and do not know whether it is another mind-trick in the same
category “globe earth – flat earth – or BOTH” , but that is for another time and another page ;
also “the (mixed-) type life” which this moon distributes is for another page] 

 
                                       so we remain with ‘the new moon + first barley’
 
      … would God not have anticipated upon that Time drift ?
      for this reason we reject the whole ‘Aries theme’ , in order to not hurt ourselves ;
      and today as the start of the 10th month we can only hope that the first barley aligns
      properly with the coming 8 April date of the new moon ; if you like – because YOU are
      the priests now (and no that is no joke !) – you can search sites under “abib barley” in 
      order to judge their finds , since the quest usually begins in March    —
      but then please remember that the ‘official’ barley harvest starts ‘end April’ minus the
      say 10 days as the earlier harvest done by hand in the olden times , so that perhaps
      a realistic time frame would be ‘the second / third week of April’ where the Passover 
      and the day of the heave-offering three days later would start the 20th of that month ;
      and this combined – please – with a realistic sheaf of first barley from an entire region ,
      not of 3 lost stalks having matured within an otherwise completely green field , grin
      … shall we do that ?  
 
https://www.astronomy.com/astronomy-for-beginners/why-your-zodiac-sign-is-probably-wrong/ 
https://nypost.com/2023/04/18/2023-04-28-solar-eclipse-new-moon-in-aries/ 
https://www.franknelte.net/article.php?article_id=43                   [the ‘official’ “end of April” quote] 
https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1904MNRAS..64..488M 
https://bible-menorah.jimdofree.com/english/calendar-and-feasts/barley-wheat-harvest-israel/