Mesorat%20hashas for Arakhin 19:2
אמר ליה
and last year we made the two full, put the three full against the three defective, and it will come to Its proper place.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Rabbi also held that eight full months are the limit, hence his astonishment when the new moon of Tishri came at the proper time in spite of the additional incomplete months. Last year the two normally defective months (Heshwan and Iyyar) were made full and the intercalated month was full. If the three defective ones of this year are placed against the three full ones of last year a normal situation is achieved, hence the new moon of Tishri appeared at the moment when it was fixed.');"><sup>1</sup></span>
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