According to the Mishnah and Tosefta, in the Maccabean, Herodian, and Mishnaic periods, new months were determined by the sighting of a new crescent, with two eye witnesses required to testify to the Sanhedrin to having seen the new lunar crescent at sunset.

According to Orthodox Judaism, Jewish law today is based on the commandments in the Torah, as viewed through the discussions and debates contained in classical rabbinic literature, especially the Mishnah and the Talmud.

According to the same tradition, these 60 years are said to have been so symmetrically apportioned that each treatise required six months for the study of its Mishnah and the redaction of the traditional expositions of the same ( Gemara ), thus aggregating 30 years for the 60 treatises.

According to the Mishnah and Talmud, the Men of the Great Assembly instituted the requirement that Jews both in Judea and in the diaspora pray three times a day ( morning, afternoon and evening ), and include in their prayers a recitation of these passages in the morning (" Shacharit ") and evening (" Ma ' ariv ") prayers.

According to a tradition which has historical confirmation, it was Akiva who systematized and brought into methodic arrangement the Mishnah, or Halakah codex ; the Midrash, or the exegesis of the Halakah ; and the Halakot, the logical amplification of the Halakah ( Yer.

According to the Mishnah ( Megillah 30b ),, the story of the attack on the Jews by Amalek, the progenitor of Haman, is also to be read.

According to the Mishnah Hillel went to Jerusalem with the intention of studying Biblical exposition and tradition at the age of 40 in 70 BCE.

* According to the Mishnah, Torah wisdom is acquired via 48 ways ( Pirkei Avoth 6: 6 )

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia article on circumcision of proselytes, in the 1st century CE, before the Mishnah was edited, the requirement for circumcision of proselytes was an open issue between the zealots and liberal parties in ancient Israel.

According to many, the " oral Torah " was ultimately recorded in the Mishnah, the Talmud and Midrash.

According to this latter form of ceremony, the water used for washing was perfumed by rose, myrtle, or aromatic spices ; the use of spices was an ancient practice, and the Mishnah especially mentions the washing ceremonies using myrtle.

According to the Mishnah, the regular Temple orchestra consisted of twelve instruments, and the choir of twelve male singers.

According to the Mishnah a mamzer is the offspring of a Biblically forbidden union ( M. Yebamoth 4, Mishnah 13: " כל שחיבין עליו כרת בידי שמים ".

According to Mishnah Parah, the presence of two black hairs invalidates a Red Heifer, in addition to the usual requirements of an unblemished animal for sacrifice.

According to the Mishnah, the ceremony of the burning of the red heifer itself took place on the Mount of Olives.

According to his driver, Asa Wittow, he always sat with a Torah book in front of him, even at a wedding, and propped a Mishnah Berurah on the shelf above his kitchen sink while he washed dishes.

According to the Mishnah Berurah, his reasoning was based on the fact that it was similar to non-Jewish rites.

According to legend, this battle also marks the first use of the Dannebrog, the world's first national flag still in use, as the national flag of Denmark.

According to the Torah, this is the first day of the seventh month of the calendar year, and marks the beginning of a ten day period leading up to Yom Kippur.

According to the strict interpretation of the gold standard, this 1844 act marks the establishment of a full gold standard for British money.

According to Cormac Herley, a researcher for Microsoft, " By sending an email that repels all but the most gullible, the scammer gets the most promising marks to self-select.

'" According to professor Darius Rejali, although dictatorships may have used tortured " more, and more indiscriminately ", it was modern democracies, " the United States, Britain, and France " who " pioneered and exported techniques that have become the lingua franca of modern torture: methods that leave no marks.

According to art historian Paul Ganz, the portrait of Amerbach marks an advance in his style, notably in the use of unbroken colours.

According to Hebrew University professor Ruth Kark, Vogt's approach was typical of European architects who, commissioned to design buildings in Jerusalem, incorporated " Eastern-style domes, arches, various kinds of different-colored stone, and interior decorations with religious symbos and inscriptions ," in buildings whose strict symmetry marks them indelibly as European.

According to the author of this theory, it would have been inconvenient for Enrique of Castille, due to his high office, to declare his authorship, but the work bears his marks as a poet and troubadour.

According to the official Rome Braves Website, 2008 marks Ingle's 30th year with the Braves organization.

According to Hugh Honour, " so far from being, as is sometimes supposed, the culmination of the Neo-classical movement, the Empire marks its rapid decline and transformation back once more into a mere antique revival, drained of all the high-minded ideas and force of conviction that had inspired its masterpieces ".

According to widespread reports, torturers beat and caned the soles of the football players ' feet — inflicting intense pain without leaving visible marks on the rest of their bodies.

According to the liner notes, this live album ( Rush's first ) marks the end of the " first chapter of Rush ," and would mark the start of a trend of releasing a live album after four studio albums.

According to tradition Hopkins used his recently acquired inheritance of a hundred marks to establish himself as a gentleman and buy the Thorn Inn in Mistley.

According to English – American anti-pornography campaigner Gail Dines, the ejaculate on the female performer's body " also marks the woman as used goods ", conveying a sense of ownership ; she quotes veteran American porn actor and producer Bill Margold stating: " I'd like to really show what I believe the men want to see: violence against women.

According to American folklore, birth marks sometimes indicate the site of traumatic injuries in a past life.

According to Minerva McGonagall, the Auror Office takes in new recruits with a minimum of 5 N. E. W. T. s ( with marks no lower than " Exceeds Expectations ").

According to Matysa Purana, they are said to narrate five subjects, called Pancha Lakshana ( Sanskrit :) (" five distinguishing marks ", though some scholars have suggested that these are shared by other traditional religious scriptures ):

According to the Financial Times, this " vote marks a turning point in the protracted battle over the law, which has split the software industry and sparked severe recriminations.

According to biographer Allison Bunkley, his presidency " marks the advent of the middle, or land-owning classes as the pivot power of the nation.

According to Chinen the inclusion marks " increasing professional acceptance of transpersonal issues ".

According to Catalan tradition ( again, this may not be uniquely Catalan ), one can wash marks on the skin with holy water in order to know whether they are the Devil's work: the Devil's mark will not wash off.

According to Armaments Minister Albert Speer, " some 36, 000, 000 marks were spent for bunkers in Rastenburg Lair.

According to Charles Coulson, author of the noted 1952 book Valence, this period marks the start of " modern valence bond theory ", as contrasted with older valence bond theories, which are essentially electronic theories of valence couched in pre-wave-mechanical terms.

( Despite common belief, he did not take a day from February ; see the debunked theory on month lengths ) According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.

Meteorologists ( and most of the temperate countries in the southern hemisphere ) use a definition based on months, with autumn being September, October and November in the northern hemisphere, According to United States tradition, autumn runs from the day after Labor Day ( i. e. the Tuesday following the first Monday of September ) through Thanksgiving ( i. e. the fourth Thursday in November ), after which the holiday season that demarcates the unofficial beginning of winter begins.

According to Ivinskaya, People who arrived in Peredelkino early in the morning on the day of the funeral told us that militiamen, commanded by very senior officers, were already stationed at the approaches to the village.

According to an anecdote preserved by Suetonius, Caesar did not deny that Catullus's lampoons left an indelible stain on his reputation, but when Catullus apologized, he invited the poet for dinner the very same day.

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, China's per capita food availability and consumption have increased, and average per capita food availability has grown from less than 1700 kcal in 1960 to 2570 kcal per day in 1995.

According to Gislason and Craig ( 2005 ): " Most thermodynamic data come from calorimetry ..." According to Kondepudi ( 2008 ): " Calorimetry is widely used in present day laboratories.

According to his biography, Venter was ready to leave Celera, and was fired due to conflict with the main investor, Tony White, that had existed since day one of the project.

According to the legend the flag, Dannebrog, was given to the Danes from God himself, and from that day forward, it was the flag of Denmark and the Danish kings.

According to IBM, the new SKA telescope initiative will generate over an exabyte of data every day.

According to the legendary account in the Kojiki, Emperor Jimmu would have been born on 13 February 711 BC ( the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar ), and died, again according to legend, on 11 March 585 BC ( both dates according to the lunisolar traditional Japanese calendar ).

According to his own account, each day he would walk in front of the hospital in which Giulio died until he was inured to the pain.

According to Dio Cassius 72. 14. 3 – 4, in about 189 AD, under Commodus ’ reign, a pestilence occurred, the largest of which he had knowledge, in which 2, 000 people died in Rome each day.

According to Hawks, Neilan did not show up to work one day and the resourceful Hawks offered to direct a scene himself, which Pickford agreed to allow.

According to Ruickbie ( 2004, p. 19 ) the Greeks observed two days sacred to Hecate, one on the 13th of August and one on the 30th of November, whilst the Romans observed the 29th of every month as her sacred day.

According to the Talmud, at the re-dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem following the victory of the Maccabees over the Seleucid Empire, there was only enough consecrated oil to fuel the eternal flame in the Temple for one day.

According to Theodor Mommsen ( The History of Rome, volume 4, The Revolution, ISBN 1-4353-4597-5, page 4 ), 1 January became the first day of the year in 600 AUC of the Roman Calendar ( 153 BC ), due to disasters in the Lusitanian War.

According to the Midrash, he came into the world on the same day that Rabbi Akiva died a martyr's death.

According to oral tradition, Rosh Hashanah is the Day of Memorial or Remembrance ( יום הזכרון, Yom HaZikaron ), and the day of judgment ( יום הדין, Yom HaDin ).

According to Rabbinic tradition, the Ten Commandments were given on this day.

According to statistics collected in 2009, there are 35, 684 song rooms in Korea with an average of 1. 9 million people participating each day.

According to the Swedish naturalist and author Bengt Sjögren ( 1980 ), present day beliefs in lake monsters such as the Loch Ness Monster are associated with the old legends of kelpies.