code: function abs(year, absDate) {
  
  	// find the first saturday on or after today's date
  	absDate = c.dayOnOrBefore(6, absDate + 6);
  
  	var weekNum = (absDate - year.first_saturday) / 7;
  	var index = year.theSedraArray[weekNum];
  
  	if (undefined === index) {
  		return abs(new Sedra(year.year + 1, year.il), absDate); // must be next year
  	}
  	if (typeof index == 'object') {
  		// Shabbat has a chag. Return a description
  		return {parsha: [index], chag: true};
  	}
  	if (index >= 0) {
  		return {parsha: [parshiot[index]], chag: false};
  	}
  
  	index = D(index); // undouble the parsha
  	return {parsha: [parshiot[index], parshiot[index + 1]], chag: false};
  }
docs: returns an array describing the parsha on the first Saturday on or after absdate