Talmud for Rosh Hashanah 47:12
וכל העם עונין אחריו מקודש מקודש מנלן אמר רב פפא אמר קרא (ויקרא כג, ב) אשר תקראו אותם קרי ביה אתם ר"נ בר יצחק אמר (ויקרא כג, ב) אלה הם מועדי הם יאמרו מועדי
OR NOT AT ITS PROPER TIME, IN EITHER CASE [THE NEW MOON] IS SANCTIFIED.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' On the thirtieth or the thirty-first day, as the case may be.');"><sup>12</sup></span> R'ELEAZAR B. ZADOK, HOWEVER, SAYS THAT IF IT IS NOT SEEN AS ITS PROPER TIME [THE NEW MOON] IS NOT [FORMALLY] SANCTIFIED, BECAUSE HEAVEN HAS ALREADY SANCTIFIED IT.
Jerusalem Talmud Rosh Hashanah
“To its North or its South?” There are Tannaim who state, “to its North” his words are accepted. There are Tannaim who state, “to its South” his words are accepted. He who said, “to its North” his words are accepted, from Ṭevet to Tamuz; he who said, “to its South” his words are accepted, from Tamuz to Ṭevet91The Babli 24a makes the changeover at the equinoxes, not the solstices. Ptolemy’s solar and lunar tables make such general statements unnecessary..
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