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Holding On

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Solar. Lunar. Lunisolar.  The three major calendars nowadays.  The Julian calendar (the solar calendar) is probably the one hanging on your wall.  The Moslem faith follows a lunar calendar, which is why Ramadan seems to happen in any season, since the lunar year is shorter than the solar one.  My calendar, the Hebrew calendar, is lunisolar.  That way the holiday of Spring stays in Spring; the holiday of Sukot, that harbingers the rainy season is situated properly.

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