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Metonic Cycle
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Metonic Calendars
The utility of the cycle is its ability to transform a purely lunar reckoning—where months alternate between $29$ and $30$ days—into a calendar that remains closely tethered to the solar year, ensuring that festivals like the Passover or Easter remain in their appropriate seasons.
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Pascha
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Pascha (from the Greek $\Pi\acute{\alpha}\sigma\chi\alpha$, derived from the Hebrew Pesach or Passover) is the principal liturgical celebration in Christianity, commemorating the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. It is the culmination of the Lenten season and represents the transition from the penitential sobriety of Holy Week to the jubilant proclamation of Christ's triumph over death. While universally …
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Temple Of Jerusalem
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The Temple of Jerusalem (Hebrew: $\text{בֵּית הַמִּקְדָּשׁ}$, Beit HaMikdash, lit. "The Holy House") refers to the sacred complex located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. This site served as the central place of worship and sacrificial rites for the ancient Israelites and later, the Judeans. The structure's physical existence is generally accepted to have spanned two primary iterations: the First Temple-(**Solomon's Temp…