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Shabbat Parshat Korach, June 28
This Shabbat we “bench” Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, which will be on Monday and Tuesday. Tammuz has two days Rosh Chodesh in our fixed calendar, because Sivan has 30 days. Tammuz itself has 29 days.
ROSH CHODESH TAMUZ YIHYEH B'YOM SHEINI U'V'YOM SHLISHI HABA ALEINU V'AL KOL YISRA'EL L'TOVA:
The Molad of Tammuz will be on Sunday, 14h 15m 2p, which translates to 2:54pm Israel Summer Time.
HAMOLAD YIHYEH MACHAR, YOM RISHON ACHAR HATZAHARAYIM, CHAMEISH ESREI DAKOT USH'NEI CHALAKIM ACHAREI SHTAYIM
The Molad will be tomorrow, Sunday, afternoon, 15 minutes and 2 parts after 2.
In Rambam notation: ALEF 20:272
The actual (astronomical) Molad is Sunday evening, 9:40pm
First op for Kiddush L’vana (Minhag Yerushalayim, 3 days after the Molad)is Wednesday night, July 2nd

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