Before we start looking at each Festival of Leviticus 23, it will be to our advantage to take a brief look at the Hebrew calendar. I found it to be a mathematical marvel, connecting the sun’s radius number (432,000 miles) to the Earth’s Precession of the Equinox1 (25,920 years) and the full lunar cycle (689,472 years). (A radius number metaphorically reveals what is at the heart or core of the object.) Both 25,920 and 689,472 are divisible by 432. The chart² below helps us see the relationship between the sun, moon, and the Earth.

Here are the basics. From the Earth’s 23.5° wobble, the Precession of the Equinox takes 25,920 years of 12 months of 2160 days to complete a circle. The moon’s entire cycle, however, takes 689,472 years, or 36,288 cycles of 19 years to reach a point of 100% repetition. The moon has two subcycles within its whole cycle, the 247 years (13 × 19) and the 19-year Metonic cycle comprised of 12 years of 12 months and 7 years of 13 months. The Earth’s Precession 2160-day month is equivalent to the moon’s diameter of 2160 miles (1080-mile radius). The 7-day week stabilizes the lunar calendar mathematically seen by taking the Hebrew lunar calendar’s parts for a day, 25,920 (the same as the Earth’s Precession of the Equinox number) and multiplying it by 7 days to get 181,440 Hebrew calendar parts per week.

What is a Hebrew calendar part? To the Hebrews, all lunar days began at 18:00 (6 PM), corresponding to hour 0 of the Hebrew calendar’s day.³ The day was divided into three parts of eight hours, 8 + 8 + 8. Further, dividing each hour into 1080 parts (the moon’s radius), each part is 3.33 seconds, and each minute is 18 parts, making each day 25,920 Hebrew calendar parts. Seven days of 25,920 parts yields a week, 181,440 parts, or 2⁶ × 3⁴ × 5 × 7. Matching the integers 2, 3, 5, and 7 to the days of the week, Monday (2), Tuesday (3), Thursday (5), and Sabbath (7), we get the only weekdays which Tishri 1 (Feast of Trumpets, Rosh Hashanah) are declared. The seventh month’s annual declarations adjust the following year’s holyday calendar, preserving its set 207 days of the seven months of light Abib through Tishri (see Blog 3 chart). All the Hebrew calendar adjustments happen outside of these seven months. And all of this is connected to the sun’s radius number 432!

Takeaway:
Elegantly, the sun, moon, and the Earth’s mathematics are relational. All bear the stamp of YHWH Elohim’s heart, the core of His being. His love for us, expressed as 432, equal to the letter sum of וְנִוָּשֵֽׁעַ, “How then shall we be saved?” (Isa. 64:5c NIV).

Fun Factors:
The sun’s light takes 8 minutes (8 × 18 = 144 Hebrew calendar parts) to reach the Earth, traveling 93,321,000 miles at 186,282 miles/second.Only the sun’s radius number squared (432²) comes within .01% accuracy of the speed of light.

The sun’s diameter number, 864,000 miles,⁴ multiplied by the moon’s diameter number, 2160 miles, (864 × 216) equals the same 432².

The sun’s diameter is 109 times the Earth’s.⁴

The sun’s distance from the Earth divided by its diameter (93,321,000/864,000) equals 108.

The moon’s distance from the Earth divided by its diameter (233,280/2160) equals 108.

The moon’s radius is 1080 miles, the same as an hour of lunar calendar time.

The moon appears mostly silver. Silver, element 47 (23.5 × 2), has an atomic weight of 108 (107.8682).

The moon’s 216 diameter number is half the sun’s radius number of 432.

A 12-hour day or night has 720 minutes or 43,200 seconds.

The precession of the equinox moves in a circle 1° every 72 years.

The cadence of the Metonic 19-year time cycle with its 7 leap years matches the C Major scale.⁵

All musical instruments were tuned to the whole tone fourth octave A vibrating at 432 cycles/second.