(BIN) – In a powerful confluence, a lunar eclipse over the continental U.S. on Sunday evening coincided with Tu B’Shevat, the Jewish arboreal New Year. Breaking Israel News cited many experts who ascribed dire significance to the event. A quick retrospective shows that the predictions were not empty as the day passed with portentous events in the heavens and on the earth. Since the moon has no atmosphere, meteors do not burn up before impacting the surface making meteor impacts far more
common than on the earth. Though relatively common, these impacts usually go unnoticed. But on Sunday, a multitude of telescopes great and small was turned towards the moon to witness the eclipse. The impact was easy to miss, a tiny spot of light illuminated for the barest moment at the height of the eclipse. One week before the eclipse, Rabbi Yekutiel Fish told Breaking Israel News that the lunar eclipse was a warning that the Jews of America should immediately move to Israel. READ MORE
