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Today, Jewish worshippers around the world are participating in events marking the "Blessing of the Sun." As Julie Wiener explains in the Wall Street Journal, "According to Talmudic calculations, every 28 years the sun is in the exact position it occupied at the time of Creation. As it happens, that moment falls on Wednesday, April 8, of this year, at sunrise -- just hours before Passover begins. There is a brief blessing for the occasion, too. It is called Birchat Hachamah, Hebrew for 'blessing of the sun.'"