Today, the spring equinox, is the first day of the year.

 Exodus 12:1-5 KJV - And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,

2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:

4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.

5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:

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Meditation starts 20 minutes before sunrise

 Start meditating 20 minutes before sunrise for the morning session and end meditating 20 minutes after sunset for the evening session. Creating a socket of silver means to meditate at night under the light of the silvery moon  

Exodus 26:19 KJV

And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.