(OPINION) ATTENTION: The following is an excerpt from Israel 365 News, and will be discussed in more detail tomorrow on our podcast session. A lunar eclipse takes place when the earth is between the sun and the moon, and the moon passes through the earth’s shadow. In this case, the earth’s shadow will block out 97% of the moon’s surface.
The eclipse will be a“blood moon”, the result of atmospheric conditions that give the moon a reddish tint rather than black when it moves into the shadow. The red color comes from some of the sunlight passing through Earth’s atmosphere where it gets bent and colors like blue or green are filtered out, leaving behind longer wavelengths like the color red.
The upcoming eclipse will be visible throughout most of North America, as well as eastern Russia, Japan, the Pacific Ocean, Mexico, Central America, and parts of western South America. On the West Coast of the US, the eclipse will begin to be visible just after 11 PM, with a maximum at 1 AM.
On the East Coast, the partial eclipse begins a little after 2 a.m., reaching its maximum at 4 in the morning. There will be 228 lunar eclipses this century, between 2001 and 2100. Most years will have two while some years will experience three or four. This will be the second of 2021, the last one, a total eclipse, taking place in May.
The eclipse will coincide with the full moon. The November full moon is also called the full frost moon, sometimes called a full beaver or dark moon. The frost moon is the last full moon of autumn. Rabbi Mordechai Genuth discussed the meaning of eclipses in Jewish tradition.
Rabbi Genuth explained that under normal circumstances, lunar eclipses are considered a bad omen for Israel. This is based on a section in the Talmud (Sukkot 29a) that specifies that lunar eclipses are a bad omen for Israel since Israel is spiritually represented by the moon. If the lunar eclipse takes place in the east side of the heavens, then it is a bad omen for all the nations in the east, and similarly, if it occurs in the western hemisphere of the sky, it is a bad sign for all the nations in the west. READ MORE
