The Economist Magazine... The Phoenix ... 500

 

The Phoenix lives for 500 years. When does this cover turn 500 sidereal months old. 

From and including: Saturday, January 9, 1988

To and including: Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Result: 13,661 days

13661/27.322 = 500 sideral months

Tue, 3 June 2025 = 7th of Sivan, 5785

ז׳ בְּסִיוָן תשפ״ה

Parashat Nasso

⛰️🌸 Shavuot II ⛰️🌸 in the Diaspora

Shavuot 2025 / שָׁבוּעוֹת 5785

Festival of Weeks ⛰️🌸

Shavuot for Hebrew Year 5785 begins in the Diaspora at sundown on Sunday, 1 June 2025 and ends at nightfall on Tuesday, 3 June 2025.

The festival of Shavuot (or Shavuos, in Ashkenazi usage; Shabhuʿoth in Classical and Mizrahi Hebrew Hebrew: שבועות, lit. “Weeks”) is a Jewish holiday that occurs on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan (late May or early June). Shavuot commemorates the anniversary of the day G-d gave the Torah to the entire Israelite nation assembled at Mount Sinai, although the association between the giving of the Torah (Matan Torah) and Shavuot is not explicit in the Biblical text. The holiday is one of the Shalosh Regalim, the three Biblical pilgrimage festivals. It marks the conclusion of the Counting of the Omer.

When does it turn 500 lunar months old? 

From and including: Saturday, January 9, 1988

To, but not including Tuesday, June 13, 2028

Result: 14,766 days

14766/29.531 = 500.01 lunar months 

Tue, 13 June 2028 = 19th of Sivan, 5788

י״ט בְּסִיוָן תשפ״ח

Parashat Sh’lach

Parashat Sh’lach 5788 / פָּרָשַׁת שְׁלַח־לְךָ

17 June 2028 / 23 Sivan 5788

Parashat Sh’lach is the 37th weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.

Torah Portion: Numbers 13:1-15:41

Shelach (“Send”) tells the story of Israelite spies journeying into Canaan, the negative report they bring back, and the resulting punishment decreed upon the Israelites: to wander and die in the desert over forty years. It ends with laws about sacrifices, the story of a man who desecrates Shabbat, and the commandment to wear ritual fringes.