The Midrash has a machlokes when baby Moshe was placed
in a basket and put in the Nile: on 6 Sivan or on 21 Nisan (see this post where
we discussed what the machlokes is all about).
According to tradition, Yocheved was able to hide Moshe for three months
before having to send him off because the Egyptians counted on babies being
born full term, but Moshe was born three months early. According to the view that Moshe was put in
the river in Sivan, counting three months from 7 Adar is a no-brainer. But how do you get three months from 7 Adar
to 21 Nisan? The Midrash answers that
the year Moshe Rabeinu was born was a leap year, and we count partial months as
full months: Adar 1 = month #1, Adar #2 = month #2, Nisan = month #3.
It makes more sense to assume that the two views in
the Midrash are not in disagreement about the calendar. Since there was no mitzvah of kiddush
hachodesh yet, the determination of how many months in the year must have been
according to some cheshbon, or maybe according to G-d, but it’s not the sort of
thing that easily lends itself to disagreement about in sevara. It’s fair to assume everyone agrees that the
year Moshe was born was a leap year – the question is whether he was born in
Adar 1 (so the three month count ends at Nisan) or in Adar 2 (and it ended in
Sivan).
Is there any way to figure out whether the year Moshe died
was a leap year or not? I have no idea,
but maybe someone else does.
See She'ilas Yaavetz (R' Yaakov Emden) v 1 siman 117. Shu"t Chasam Sofer OC Siman 163 (near the end).
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