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[John Cowan]

M. Warner Losh scripsit:


> How often does this happen?  About 1 in 29 years?


I assume you mean 1 in 19 years.  But the Jewish calendar doesn't actually
repeat every 19 years precisely: certain adjustments are made to prevent
certain dates from being consecutive or coincident.  For example, we
don't want Yom Kippur to fall adjacent to a Saturday, as that would make
two consecutive days on which bodies cannot be buried.  The exact rules
are available at http://tondering.dk/claus/cal/node5.html .

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