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... Last opportunity for Kiddush L'vana is 14 days, 18 hours and 22 minutes after the molad. That is halfway from one molad to the next. It is the moment when the moon is at its fullest and then begins to diminish. (Since we use average figures for the calculation of molad and nigud, there will most often be a deviation between real full moon and the last op for KL. For practical purposes, it makes no difference if the actual moment of opposition (full moon) is earlier or later than our Sof Zman KL - we use our calculated time. For Iyar, it comes to Monday, May 23rd, 14 Iyar, at 2:09pm Israel Summer Time (adjustable for your locale). That means, of course, that Sunday night is really the last opportunity. Motza'ei Shabbat is better still. (More preferable is to have already said KL this month by the time you read this.) [The
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