I would interject here a thought that my wife had as I sat down to begin this treatise. She spoke to me of the Scripture in Genesis 3:2 about the Spirit of YHVH moving upon the face of the waters in the darkness of creation before there was light upon the earth. She wondered aloud whether this could relate to the conjunctive, dark moon as being the New Moon. I responded to her that it was an interesting thought.

My wife had been reading The Prophetic Word, a book of over 1100 pages in tiny print by John Quincy Adams (circa 1924) during the whole time I was writing. Adams was a Sabbath keeper who also kept the New Moon and Feast Days.

In fact, I was preparing this, and she was reading and meditating, as part of our New Moon observance.