Please, this is JUST an observation, nothing more, nothing less.
It appears the Yoel HaLevi and Devorah Gordon have changed from a field of indivisible barley grains (their aviv) + new moon sliver = the first month of the biblical new year.
I’m reading now that Yoel is saying: “There is every reason to believe there will be **entire fields of harvestable barley before the date for the waiving of the ommer.” **
And from Devorah; “**harvestable barley by Yom HaNafat HaOmer**”
Now Yoel’s equation is reading: New moon sliver + a field of their aviv barley by wave sheaf = the first month of the biblical new year.
Now Devorah’s equation is reading; New moon sliver + enough of their aviv barley to feed a small nation by wave sheaf = the first month of the biblical new year.
According to the old equation of a field of aviv barley** **+** **the new moon they would not have been able to start the year at the sighting of the new moon on the 25th or 26th of March, but would have needed to add a 14th month. According to Devorah’s new equation, she still may not have enough to start the new year by their wave sheaf date…..enough to feed a small nation (who would know how to calculation this? what are the parameters? If you know tell me.) If I’m wrong on this summation send me a PM.
With prayer and time we may all come to the same point.
It takes work, literally work, to prove all things. I’m willing to do that work. In this season before the barley disappears, I hope to prove what condition the wild barley may be harvested in with a hand sickle + without loosing grains this should = the ‘green ear’ condition stated in the bible…..thus my fascination of ‘the violence of the sickle on the barley grains’Updated Mar 22, 2020, 1:39 PM