Daily Talk
A court can calculate the equinox to the hour, weigh the barley in three provinces, and count its votes correctly, and if it concludes after dark the whole thing is void. Why would the Rambam let a year hang on the light in the room?
The Year Is Not Made Full at Night
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About This Talk
Chapter 4 of Kiddush HaChodesh turns from the arithmetic of the moon to the room where the year is decided: the equinox, the barley, and the fruit trees that make a year full, the escalation from three judges to seven, the king and the High Priest who may not sit, and the rulings on province, daylight, and the thirtieth of Adar that determine whether an intercalation stands at all.