In this class we discuss the following issues:
* Why our prayers for rain are based on the agricultural cycle of ancient Iraq.
* How we ended up with December 5th outside Israel.
* What do people in the southern hemisphere do?
* Why do people in Israel still wait two weeks, when there are no longer thousands of people who have to return on foot to Babylon after visiting the Temple for the festival?
* And what should we do it we do not need rain from December 5 until Pesach?
