A Redemptive Reconciliation

An alternative approach to understand an oddity in the Jewish calendar.

There is an interesting oddity that occurs every couple years with regard to the Jewish calendar. If you look back a few millennia, we find that the Jews of Eretz Yisrael had a three year Torah reading cycle and the Jews outside of Israel had a one year cycle.

Somewhere along the way this changed to a universal one year cycle. For the most part we are o…