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... 

This Shabbat we “bench” Rosh Chodesh Elul, which will be next Thursday and Friday. Someone pointed out that AV (ALEF-BET) can stand for ELUL BA, Elul is coming. And so are the Yamim Nora'im
ROSH CHODESH ELUL YIHYEH B'YOM CHAMISHI UV'YOM HASHISHI HABA ALEINU V'AL KOL YISRA'EL L'TOVA:
The Molad of Elul will be on Wednesday afternoon, 43 minutes and 4 chalakim after 3:00. This is how it is announced:
HAMOLAD YIHYEH B'YOM RVI'I ARBA'IM V'SHALOSH DAKOT V'ARBA'A CHALAKIM ACHAREI SHALOSH ACHAR H'TZAHARAYIM
The Molad will be Wednesday afternoon 43 minutes and 4 parts after 3.
In Rambam notation: DALET 21:778. DALET is Wednesday, 21 hours is the 15 of 3:00pm and another six, since Rambam counts hours from sunset i.e. 6 hours before midnight, not from midnight.)
This translates to 4:22pm Israel summer time
Actual (astronomical) molad is Wed. 8:26pm

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