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A 100 year bordered chart to calculate on which day to begin saying "Ve-ten Tal u-matar" in the Shemonah Esreh prayer (outside of Israel). It contains the names of six Rabbis who agreed with Friedlander's chart, including: R. Nathan Adler of London, R. Shaul Ehrenfeld, R. Azriel Hildesheimer of Berlin, R. Mordechai Amram Hirsch of Prague, et al.
The Tal Umatar prayer was said throughout the millennia of Jewish Exile from Eretz Yisrael (the Land of Israel), ... In the Diaspora, the first of which was in Babylon, where rain was not needed so early or so urgently, this prayer was inserted at a later date, in the evening of the sixtieth day after the autumn equinox – December 5th (6th preceding a leap year; 4th in the centuries further from the leap year correction century). The date was originally set according to the Julian (not Gregorian) calendar |
