Cape Canaveral, FL – The only total lunar eclipse this year and next came with a supermoon bonus.
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On Sunday night, the moon, Earth and sun lined up to create the eclipse, which was visible throughout North and South America, where skies were clear. There won’t be another until 2021.
It was also the year’s first supermoon, when a full moon appears a little bigger and brighter thanks to its slightly closer position.
The entire eclipse took more than three hours. Totality — when the moon’s completely bathed in Earth’s shadow — lasted an hour. During a total lunar eclipse, the eclipsed, or blood, moon turns red from sunlight scattering off Earth’s atmosphere.
Besides the Americas, the entire lunar extravaganza could be observed, weather permitting, all the way across the Atlantic to parts of Europe.
The explanation, that the earth blocks the sunlight from reaching the moon, is something that we can not accept. The Chazal clearly say that at night it is dark because the sun travels from west to east above a non-transparent blanket called Sky. So when we look up and see the moon, underneath that blanket, it is producing its own light. Likui Levanah is when the moon’s light gets extinguished because of certain Sins that the Chazal enumerate.
Its no coincident that this occurred on TuBishvat, when the Geula for the Yeshua begins to gain strength and the moon is hidden.