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- 2. Sent out when fires could no longer be trusted
- 6. They lit false fires to trick the Jews about the new moon
- 8. The Jewish months are based on this heavenly body
- 9. They reported sighting the new moon to the Sanhedrin
- 13. Hebrew name for the Jewish calendar
- 14. In Creation, each day followed evening with this
- 15. High court that declared the new month in ancient times
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- 1. Its destruction displaced the Sanhedrin
- 3. The last day of the Jewish week
- 4. The Jewish day begins at this time
- 5. Name for the start of a new Jewish month
- 6. The first day of the Jewish week
- 7. There are twenty-nine or __ days in a Jewish month
- 10. Number of days in the Jewish week
- 11. Method first used to spread news of the new moon
- 12. The Jewish calendar has reference to this event
- 16. There are twenty-nine and a __ days in the moon’s cycle
