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The question is often asked as to whether the Jewish calendar is lunar or solar. The correct answer is that it is both.

The individual months are determined by the monthly cycle of the moon. There are usually six months of twenty-nine day, and six months that are thirty days. This would give a lunar year 354 days.

But the solar aspect of the calendar forces the holiday of Pesach to be........

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