Yom Teruah 2005

Below are pictures of the New Moon as seen from just outside the Old City of Jerusalem on September 5, 2005, Yom Teruah in the Biblical-Aviv reckoning.

[The view is from just outside the Old City, just below the northwest corner of the city walls. The building to the left of the moon with the satellite dish is the King Solomon Hotel. Note that the photos were taken with a digital camera which warps the actual brightness of the background sky.]

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Avi Ben Mordechai blows the shofar from our obervation point.

(The lovely orange creature taking interest in the shofar is my dog Georgia. The building in the center of the background is the YMCA. The King Solomon hotel is in the upper left corner of the photo. )