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Two Orthodox Jewish men praying from the same prayer book in Springfield park, Stamford Hill, to celebrate the festival of Birkat Hachama (Blessing of the Sun). It is a Jewish blessing that is recited in appreciation of the Sun once every twenty-eight years, when the vernal equinox as calculated by tradition falls on a Tuesday at sundown. Jewish tradition says that when the Sun completes this cycle, it has returned to its position when the world was created. According to Judaism, the Sun has a 28 year solar cycle known as machzor gadol

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Two Orthodox Jewish men praying from the same prayer book in Springfield park, Stamford Hill, to celebrate the festival of Birkat Hachama (Blessing of the Sun).  It is a Jewish blessing that is recited in appreciation of the Sun once every twenty-eight years, when the vernal equinox as calculated by tradition falls on a Tuesday at sundown. Jewish tradition says that when the Sun completes this cycle, it has returned to its position when the world was created. According to Judaism, the Sun has a 28 year solar cycle known as machzor gadol
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