Talk:Tekufah

dates
Someone has changed the Tekufot to correspond exactly to the Soltices and equinoxes, but the traditional measure is the uncorrected Julian calendar. -173.3.112.55 (talk) 05:30, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
 * On second glance, the original reference actually uses the correct astronomical dates rather than the traditional dates, but this makes "It will be noticed that the tekufot fall from fourteen to eighteen days later than the true solar equinox or solstice," awkward as the average reader won't notice it. I can't find a reference for the dates exactly, but I can find references for the date of Tekufat Tishrei being 60 days before the diaspora says ten tal umater, and that date can be referenced to December 4, placing the Tekufah on about October 7. From there Shnuel's system can be used, but I feel that would be original research. -173.3.112.55 (talk) 05:45, 25 December 2009 (UTC)


 * The dates and the constellations do not correspond now, being quite different from what they were 2600 years ago. The constellations are as they were when the Talmud was written.  But the Roman calendar dates are the modern astronomical dates.

75.210.61.194 (talk) 19:03, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

"stripping-time" correction
it was our source, the JE, that made the error. Possibly the JE may have got it from Herzfeld, but Phiolologus apparently never thought of looking there -- in what I would have thought the most totally obvious of places. His article in the Forward complains that WP is not referenced, but the article was referenced exactly-- to the public domain source it was copied from, a early twentieth-century signed scholarly source that never gave its reference.  DGG ( talk ) 06:03, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

not complete
You should point out that in Babylonian Talmud, tractate Avodah Zarah, dafs 12a and 12b, ANY water left standing overnight was considered dangerous and it was also considered dangerous to drink water in the dark. That should be in here to show that the Tekufah story is not the only one about water in Talmud. 108.56.212.179 (talk) 15:15, 22 September 2013 (UTC)