Yom Kippur WORD OF THE MONTH A weekly feature of Torah Tidbits to help clarify practical and conceptual aspects of the Jewish Calendar, thereby better fulfilling the mitzva of HaChodesh HaZeh Lachem... KIDDUSH L'VANA - Molad was early afternoon of Thursday before Rosh HaShana. Those who say KL after 3 days after the Molad, said it on Motza'ei RH, Sunday night, unless they waited until after Tzom Gedaliya. 7-day after the Molad people can say KL from Thursday night, October 5th. Motza'ei Shabbat people can say it this Motza'ei Shabbat Shuva. But many, many (most?) people have the custom of waiting until Motza'ei Yom Kippur, so that they can follow YK immediately with a mitzva. That's the deal. More on 5761... In last week's column, it was pointed out that 5761 has a Shabbat Sukkot and a Motza'ei Shabbat Pesdach Seder. The former is a 28.6% occurrence. (4 of the 14 types of years begin on Shabbat.) The former happens 11.5% of the time. (3 of the 14 different years have a Sunday to Shabbat Pesach.) Both occur only in a PEI-ZAYIN-SHIN year (which 5761 is). It occurs with an average frequency of 4.3%. What makes these two factors interesting when occurring together, is that 5761 is a rare year that has no Shabbat Chol HaMoed. The last time this happened was 5737 - 24 years ago. The next time it is scheduled to happen is 5781 - 20 years from now. [The Yom Kippur Homepage]
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