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The Samaritans calendar
Samaritan holidays are not always celebrated on the same date as they are in Judaism. Though the calculation of the Samaritan Hebrew calendar is identical to the Jewish one since they both are conducted according to same circulatory system, the calculating method is different.
The Jewish calendar consists of a nineteen year cycle, seven of which are leap years, the Samaritan calendar however contains eleven leap years. Furthermore, the Samaritan calendar year starts on the date the Israelites entered Canaan while the Jewish one starts with the creation of the world. The leap years in the Jewish and Samaritan traditions are not parallel, thus approximately every three years Samaritan holidays might be celebrated up to a month later then their Jewish equivalents.
Yet even when the calendar year does correlate, there is no guarantee that the holidays will do as well. Samaritans never postpone holidays while Jews tend to do that on a number of occasions (not Sundays, Wednesdays and Saturdays-Rosh Hashanah, nor Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays- Yom-Kippur, nor Wednesdays and Fridays-Passover, nor Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays- Shavuot). It is done so that the Ninth of Av would never fall on a Sabbath, as it is not accustomed to greave on that day. Furthermore, the Jews have determined that Yom Kippur shall never fall on Fridays or Sundays to prevent a state of a two day vacation in. The Samaritans though, as is already mentioned above, never postpone or precede the dates of their holidays.
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