Birchat HaChama -- Interesting
A thjanks to 
kmellion for reminding me that Birchat Hachama is this year. Reading the Wikipedia entry, I felt a vague memory stir in me that the time the Talmud was computing this was a time when other cultures in the region were dealing with some new astronomical/astrological calculations and observations with regard to the motion of the Heavenly bodies. Not remembering in enough detail, however.
kmellion for reminding me that Birchat Hachama is this year. Reading the Wikipedia entry, I felt a vague memory stir in me that the time the Talmud was computing this was a time when other cultures in the region were dealing with some new astronomical/astrological calculations and observations with regard to the motion of the Heavenly bodies. Not remembering in enough detail, however.