Aviv Barley and Intercalation 2026 Patch

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Aviv Barley Firstfruits and Intercalation “Patch” Study
2nd Day, 12th Month, 5786
20 February 2026

Why Retroactive Declarations of the Aviv Barley is Wrong—and Why Intercalation is the Solution (but not necessarily the “7 species”).

In this session:

1. 5786 (2026) Barley “Patch” Update.
2. Cry for help—annual “Barley Wars”.
3. Why retroactively declaring the Aviv is wrong.
4. Why intercalation is the solution.
5. 11, 12, 13, and 14 months?
6. Barley witness updates.

Opening prayers

Dear Yahweh, please use this patch study to help our people come closer together, and be more responsible to You as a people. Please help us all be mature adults who serve You, putting You and Your Son first.

Please help us to not worry about being right, but to focus on doing and teaching what is right in your sight. Please help us to be mature and responsible adults about this. Let us use names only for clarity and reconciliation.

Determining which aviv barley starts the year

1. In 5777 (2017) Rav Nasi Weiss told me that the Sanhedrin wants to go back to the original calendar. (Are you sure?? [Joke.])
2. Ephraim continues the “barley wars” each year.
3. I think Yahweh showed us the answer, which is (proper) intercalation.
4. We hope to publish a fully revised study later.

Qorintim Bet (1 Corinthians) 15:20, 23:
20 But now Mashiach has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
23 But each in his own order: Mashiach the firstfruits; then, at His coming, those who belong to Him.

How Many Months?

Gregorian year is 365 days = 12 months of 30/31 days.
Hebrew months are 29 or 30 days = 11 days less/year.
Every 3 years you must add an extra month to keep things lined up (intercalated)—but the real issue is to line up the agricultural harvests (i.e., aviv barley to aviv barley). (This also lines up the wheat for Pentecost.)

Do longer years and shorter years occur?

About 2/3 of Hebrew years are 12 months long.
About 1/3 of Hebrew years are 13 months long.
A year with 11 months IS possible (although rare).
A year with 14 months IS possible (although rare).
The number of months is NOT important.
(The main thing is to go from aviv barley to aviv barley, AND to have the firstfruits of wheat for Shavuot.)

Why Retroactive Declarations are Wrong

Aviv = Month 1 in the Hillel II Jewish Calendar (Similar to how January is the first month on the Roman-Greco calendar.)
Adar = Month 12 in the Hillel II Jewish Calendar. (Similar to how December is the 12th month on the Roman-Greco calendar.)
Adar Bet = Month 13 in the Hillel II Jewish Calendar. (This would be like having a 2nd December on a Roman-Greco calendar.)
The question then becomes, “Is it Aviv (the start of the year) yet? Or do we have what can be compared to as “second December”?
(In other words, do you need a 13th month?)

Simple Rules for Declaring the Firstfruits Barley:

ON OR BEFORE THE NEW MOON:
1. Did you see a sheaf of Aviv (medium dough) barley, or is it clear that there will be a sheaf of Aviv barley for the Day of the Wave Offering (the day after Passover, 15-21 days after the beginning of the month)?
2. If yes, priest. declares the Aviv!
3. If no, WAIT until the following month and then RE-INSPECT!
4. DO NOT retroactively declare!

Shemote (Exodus) 12:2-3
2  “This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.
3  “Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: ‘On the tenth of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household.”

No retroactive because 14 days are needed

In ancient times, the farmer would notify the priesthood if he thought to have aviv barley.
The priesthood would come to inspect and determine whether it was aviv barley (yes or no).
If yes, the priesthood would declare Aviv, and this declaration is disseminated throughout land (2-5 days).
Then, the people get ready to come up to Jerusalem for the feasts.
People must travel (2-6+ days).
People must bring or take a lamb (on the 10th).

Viewer comment

Dear Norman
I feel sometimes absolutely frustrated and saddened when Passover arrives. My best friend is off to Israel [February] 22nd with a group of friends – to inspect the barley harvest… They have had information of some budding barley a week ago – not sure but it may be what Becca mentioned in the Jezreel valley. …As they are in a group that last year declared the new year after the fact – i warned this ministry that the cannot do this…
[Concerned viewer commentary]

[A certain barley witness likes to declare the barley early, especially with regards to the Jordan River Valley Pumphouse.]

… So my friend has declared Rosh Hashanah yesterday, in the hope that they find Aviv barley for First Fruits . If they don’t , he is going to declare they really tried , but couldn’t find some, and rename this month, their 13th month… Before anyone has a complaint about this , just remember Nazarene Israel will also not achieve their goal in finding the first of Aviv barley – but will have to accept the only Aviv barley ready at that time in April … in my view … the only viable solution for the future [is that] There will have to be better inspections of the barley… Thank you that I could share this with you.
Shalom and [Elohim] bless.
[Concerned viewer commentary continued]

[We need responsible and communicative barley witnesses.]

Before anyone has a complaint about this , just remember Nazarene Israel will also not achieve their goal in finding the first of Aviv barley – but will have to accept the only Aviv barley ready at that time in April .

Retroactive Declaration Questions:

• If you retroactively declare the Aviv (the start of the year) right up to the day of the Omer offering, how can you go back and take a lamb on the 10th of the month?
• And how can you keep the Pesach in its time?
• (Are you Elohim, that you can turn back time??)

Before anyone has a complaint about this , just remember Nazarene Israel will also not achieve their goal in finding the first of Aviv barley – but will have to accept the only Aviv barley ready at that time in April .

10 Days Lamb Dilemma Scenarios: Pick one:

• 1. So, you choose your lamb on the 10th, and then leave home, and start walking up to Jerusalem (which takes 2-6+ days). So, you might not even arrive in time for Pesach on the 14th! Alternately you can drive your lamb hard, and probably kill it (Yahweh forbid).
• 2. Alternately, you can go up to Jerusalem early and buy your lamb there on the 10th. However, what if you arrive on the 10th and the barley witness declares “Sorry, there is no aviv this month! Come back next month!” (But now your second tithe and your time are already gone.)

(That would have happened last year with one barley witness who insisted on retroactive.)

Intercalation: (Reversal for us.)

I used to teach that the very first sheaf of aviv barley must begin the harvest, so that the poor do not lose their crops. However, “freakishly early” sheaves of barley do not start the formal harvest, because of the need for the wheat harvest for Shavuot, 50 days after the Omer offering. Rather, the formal harvest must begins with the first sheaves of the formal body of the harvest.

Shemote (Exodus) 34:22
22 “And you shall observe the Feast of Weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year’s end.

• You must have the firstfruits of the native black Emmer Wheat 50 days after Yom HaNafat HaOmer (the Day of the Wave Sheaf Offering).

Becca Biderman 18 February 2026:
“According to the witness of the 7 species which are the 7 first fruits offerings that were given in the temple, this is the 12th biblical month.”

“7 Species” is Mishnaic, but she is right about the need for intercalation.
Brian Convery also teaches intercalation (an equilux version).

Becca Biderman and Brian Convery are right about the need to intercalate (i.e., line up the year). If she had hypothetically declared the first sheaf of barley of 11/23 or 2/16 there would NOT be wheat 50 days later at Shavuot (Pentecost), and the wheat is a commanded offering.

Shalom

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