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Thoughts on the Unusually Visible Erev Yom Kippur Moon

13/10/2016

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On Tuesday afternoon, Erev Yom Kippur, I unexpectedly noticed the Moon a full 2 hours before sunset.
 
Its visibility was even more striking because there were clouds floating around (i.e., its exceptional visibility wasn't due to it merely being the only white thing in the sky) and a cloud slightly covered it.
 
Additionally, over the summer, I saw the Moon regularly around an hour before sunset.
 
Of course, there could be practical reasons for it:
 
1) The Moon is closer to the Sun (enabling the Sun to illuminate it more).
2) The Moon is closer to the Earth.
3) The Sun is shining brighter, making the Moon (and other planetary bodies) brighter.
4) In addition to the Sun, another luminary body (Nibiru!) is shining on us all, making the Moon (and other planetary bodies) brighter.
 
Most of the above can be checked out online.
 
However, there are also always spiritual reasons for naturally occurring events.
 
We know that the Jewish Nation is compared to the Moon.
 
It seems that if the Moon's light is growing brighter, then that is a good indication that our light is growing brighter, too.
 
Furthermore, our Sages speak of the Sun and the Moon possessing separate "memshalah" - authority or rulership - the Moon's memshalah occurring at night while the Sun's memshalah occurs during the day. But now the Moon is increasing its memshalah by edging into the Sun's memshalah, which is also a good sign for us.
 
And even if this was only a one-time occurrence, the fact that it occurred Erev Yom Kippur is still significant.

Finally, many others have already noted that the Moon has become very bright at night and at times, we've seen an enormous and very beautiful halo around the Moon.
 
I really hope that the Moon's increased light and memshalah is truly a siman tov for us.
 
May we merit that it be so.

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Chava link
13/10/2016 18:51:15

Dassie,

Lovely post! I noticed the bright moon too but didn't know what to make of it - you'll see why below.

Thanks to the picture you posted, I finally understand what's happened to the moon! It's a subtle change, but definite, if it's a recent picture. Did you take it? Or, where did you get it?

The face is turning away from the viewer. I remember that it faced us directly when I was younger (I'm probably old enough to be your mom, and my one eye isn't so good. I used to see the moon bright and clear. Now, not so much.).

G'mar tov, Shabbath shalom, & Hag sameah!

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Myrtle Rising
13/10/2016 21:26:03

Thank you, Chava!

It's not my photo, but my guess is that this is a fairly recent photo.

Anyway, it's very interesting what you're saying.

You know, a couple of years ago, I also noticed that the Moon's "face" looked different, but I thought maybe it looks different in Israel than in North America. Yet I don't know enough about these things to know if that would make such a difference.

Sorry to hear about your eye! May Mashiach come very soon and give us all a complete refuah!
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BTW, if it helps to know:
My blog host, Weebly, offers a bunch of photos for free and then Weebly automatically sticks the credit at the bottom of the page. (I don't know if you can see it, but if you scroll down to the very bottom right-hand side in the brown area of the post's page, you can see who gets the credit for the photo whenever I use a photo from Weebly's collection.)

When I initially see the photo, I have no idea who the photographer is. But because Weebly has a deal has a deal with Flickr's free photo collection called "The Commons," I know it's from there. Here is the link:
https://www.flickr.com/commons
In this case, the photo is attributed to Miles Gehm on Flickr. (But I don't know where this particular photo is in his collection.)

But if you can't see it, then just ask me and I'll always be happy to let you know whose Flickr photo it is.

I've also used photos from Pixabay or WikiCommons, and I usually link to the photo in that case (but not always).

And I guess I don't need to say this, but it always seems like the right thing to do (and I don't know who else is reading this):
Pixabay and Flickr contain some pretty unwholesome images; a photographer might have a lovely nature image right next to the image of his last beach 'n' beer party. ;)

But as I said, I'm happy to give you the information if it's hard to figure out.

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Chava link
13/10/2016 22:10:33

I finally found where the photo credit is. Thank you. It does help.

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Myrtle Rising
13/10/2016 22:25:26

Great!

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Nechama
18/10/2016 11:06:40

Yes, I saw the moon as it was rising and it seemed much closer because it was more in the eastern part of the sky and as it rose higher it moved farther to the south-eastern sky and eventually to the south-western sky. As it was rising it was very large and very golden-bright with a haze around it. The haze i believe is debris from the visiting stars/planets to our solar system, btw which is much closer to us than thought. AbsoluteTruth had a post about the ‘haze’. And one of Steve Olson's videos showed just how close it is because of the sightings in the sky from around the world. We should keep our eye on the moon and sun as much as we can to denote changes. Chag Succot Sameach!

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Myrtle Rising
18/10/2016 14:17:36

Thank you for sharing your observations and Chag Sameach to you, too!

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