VIDEO: Aviv Barley already found in Israel!! New Biblical Year to start Soon!
The unofficial "official" Aviv search hasn't really begun yet, but Nehemia Gordon and others are already finding Barley in the state of Aviv (in Israel). This is an important finding because it helps set the beginning of an entire year, including the months in which the three pilgrimage festivals fall. This will also be the start of the first year of the next 7-year Shmittah/Sabbath cycle... and there is some very interesting timing with the Temple Institute's "First Annual International Temple Mount Awareness Day" on March 16 (when the New Moon is most likely to be sighted), as well as the Hurva synagogue's third dedication (and the rabbinic prophecy connecting it to the Third Temple being rebuilt).
"We're here in the Jordan Valley and there is this. We're here with this pretty amazing swathe of Barley. We're gonna walk over to the other side of the hill. ... Oh wow! Wow! ... Quite a lot of ripening Barley here. We're going to examine it and suspect a large amount of it is Aviv. ... ... Wow, yeah, this is the mother lode. The mother lode of Aviv Barley." - Nehemia Gordon
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 1:40 PM, ngordon4 wrote:
Karaite Korner Newsletter #452
Aviv Found in Jordan Valley!
This morning (March 12, 2010) we found Aviv barley in the Jordan Valley in two fields just north of the Israeli army checkpoint. We took three samplings from these fields and they were 90-100% Aviv. I posted two videos of these fields on Youtube, taken with my new Flip MinoHD video camera:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQFFrPPymS4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lBSl2aEoHkWe also found Aviv barley further south in the Jordan Valley and smaller quantities near Ein Mabua.
Thanks to Devorah Gordon and Shoshanah Waterman for participating in this preliminary Aviv excursion. The main Aviv Search will still go ahead on March 16-17 but what we found so far is already enough to call it for this year. This means the new biblical year will begin on March 17, 2010 at sunset. For more details of the Gregorian dates see:
http://www.karaite-korner.org/holiday_dates.shtmlNehemia Gordon
Jerusalem, Israel