The Monday, April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse will cross North America, passing over Mexico, the United States, and Canada. The total solar eclipse will begin over the South Pacific Ocean. Weather permitting, the first location in continental North America that will experience totality is Mexico’s Pacific coast at around 11:07 a.m. PDT.
The path of the eclipse continues from Mexico, entering the United States in Texas, and traveling through Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Small parts of Tennessee and Michigan will also experience the total solar eclipse. The eclipse will enter Canada in Southern Ontario, and continue through Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Cape Breton. The eclipse will exit continental North America on the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland, Canada, at 5:16 p.m. NDT.
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From AsktheRav.com, by Rabbi Yosef Braun of the Crown Heights Beis Din.
Question:
Is there any issue in traveling to see a solar eclipse?
Answer:
There is no issue per se in seeing it. However, one should not look intently for safety reasons.
Obviously, once you take into account if it causes unnecessary bittul Torah.
One does not make a bracha upon seeing it.
For more about a solar eclipse, please listen to this voice note.
Beautiful shiur
Excellent Shiur
Rav Braun mentions about some people fasting during an eclipse. Monday will be Yom Kippur Koton, when many are fasting anyway.
So completely beautiful and thoroughly satiating. Thank you!
Monday solar eclipse is also the day of Molad for RH Nissan month of Geula there are no coincidences any chiddush about this connection? This month after 10/7 can be pivotal and signs are all over
It’s at the exact time of the Molad in Yerushalaim
An eclipse always happens at the time of the Molad
By definition, a solar eclipse can only happen at the exact time of the actual molad. The one that’s announced in shul is not the real molad, it’s a very rough approximation; when there’s a solar eclipse we know the time of the real molad. Nowadays this has no halachic relevance, since our calendar is calculated in advance and doesn’t depend at all on the actual moon, but when Kiddush Hachodesh was practiced this was relevant, because if witnesses claim to have seen the new moon at a certain time, and there was a solar eclipse after that time, we… Read more »