(OPINION) ETH – In a few weeks, a solar eclipse, a warning to the nations in Jewish tradition, will come with a specific message. One of the most prominent mystics in Israel today declared that the message is clear: the final redemption has already begun.
The annular phase of this solar eclipse will be visible in the morning of June 10 from parts of Russia, Greenland, northern Canada, and the northeastern US. Weather permitting, those in Northern Asia, Europe, and the eastern US will see a partial eclipse.
An annular eclipse occurs when the Sun and Moon are exactly in line with the Earth, but the apparent size of the Moon is smaller than that of the Sun. Hence the Sun appears as a very bright ring, or annulus, surrounding the dark disk of the Moon.
This is, essentially, the opposite of a supermoon, when the moon is close to the earth making it appear larger. Sunday’s annular eclipse is especially rare as it comes in the summer. The Earth’s orbit around the Sun is elliptical, making the Earth’s distance from the Sun vary throughout the year. This affects the apparent size of the Sun.
It is interesting to note that in a paper published in the scientific journal Astronomy and Geophysics in 2017, researchers from England’s Cambridge University confirmed a theory that Joshua’s miraculous ‘stopping of the sun’ during a battle to allow the Israelites more time to defeat their enemies was actually an annular solar eclipse identical to the one that will appear in June. On the Hebrew calendar, this solar eclipse occurred on the 3rd of Tammuz, two days after the eclipse on June 10. READ MORE
