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...

Iyar always has 29 days in our fixed calendar; therefore, Sivan has only one day Rosh Chodesh. Rosh Chodesh Sivan will be WEDNESDAY.
ROSH CHODESH SIVAN YIH-YEH B'YOM R'VI'I HABA ALEINU V'AL KOL YISRA'EL L'TOVA
The MOLAD is TUE 7h 52m 8p
HAMOLAD YIH-YEH B'YOM SHLISHI BABOKER, CHAMISHIM USHTAYIM DAKOT USH'MONEH CHALAKIM ACHAREI SHEVA
Which is (in Israel) TUE June 7, 8:31am
In Rambam's notation: Tuesday 13:944
The announced molad is based on average calculation; the astronomical (actual) molad is TUE 7 JUN 00:55, 7½ hours before the announced molad. Last month it was 8 hrs. earlier; next months 6¼, 4, 1, then 2 hrs. later

A TT reader emailed us about a wrong impression gotten from last week's Word of the Month about the yahrzeit of the RAMA. We used the term amend, implying that the Rama "corrected" the Shulchan Aruch. Append would probably have been a better word. The Rama defined the halacha for the Ashkenazi community where it differs from S'faradi p'sak.

28 Iyar is the 2882nd yahrzeit of Sh'muel HaNavi, who died in 2883, just about half way back to Creation

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