order to keep the lunar and solar year synchronized, an intercalary month was added every three years or so. This makeup month was called Veadar. So he was stuck with a Jewish calendar that varied and a lunar year which sometimes varied and then had to be recalibrated, so to speak, with the solar yearly cycle. How was he supposed to figure out anything based upon a calendar which had varying year lengths? No wonder Sir Robert Anderson had chosen to use a Noahadic year of three-hundred-and-sixty days! Nothing else seemed to work.
The Jewish calendar faced challenges in maintaining synchronization between the lunar and solar years. To address this, an intercalary month named Veadar was added approximately every three years, but this created variability in the calendar. As a result, the lunar year could differ significantly, leading to complications when trying to rely on a calendar that did not have a consistent year length.
Sir Robert Anderson's choice to use a Noahadic year of 360 days highlights the difficulty in finding a stable framework. With the Jewish calendar's fluctuations and the need for recalibration with the solar cycle, it was understandable why he would prefer a fixed system. The complexities of the varying year lengths made reliable timekeeping a daunting task.
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