Today is a Very Rare Day!




Today is a very rare day.  It is the first time in history that Thanskgiving (the 4th Thursday of November) and the first day of Hanukkah have occurred at the same time.  (But prior to 1942 when FDR moved Thanksgiving from the 5th Thursday to the 4th Thursday it happened in 1888.)  Just how rare is this?  This has never happened before—and it won’t happen again until the year 79,811.
How did this calendrical anomaly come about? Jonathan Mizrahi, who holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Maryland, provides a thorough explanation:
The Jewish calendar is very slowly getting out of sync with the solar calendar, at a rate of 4 days per 1,000 years (not bad for a many-centuries-old calendar!). This means that while presently Hanukkah can be as early as 11/28, over the years the calendar will drift forward, such that the earliest Hanukkah will be is 11/29. The last time Hanukkah falls on 11/28 is 2146 (which happens to be a Monday). Therefore, 2013 is the only time Hanukkah will ever overlap with Thanksgiving.
Wow, I am going to make the most of this day which has been dubbed, "Thanksgivukkah" by celebrating every minute of it--which also happens to be my 57th BIRTHDAY today!  How cool is that?!?!

This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
Ps. 118:24

For God says, "At just the right time, I heard you. On the day of salvation, I helped you." Indeed, the "right time" is now. Today is the day of salvation.  2 Cor. 6:2

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