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 Iyar, which will be on Monday and Tuesday. Nissan has 30 days in our fixed calendar, therefore Iyar's Rosh Chodesh is two days. Iyar has 29 days in our fixed calendar.

ROSH CHODESH IYAR YIH-YEH B'YOM SHENI U"V'YOM SHLISHI HABA ALEINU V'AL KOL YISRA'EL L'TOVA

The molad of Iyar is SUN 19h 8m 7p
HAMOLAD YIH-YEH (MACHAR) B'YOM RISHON, SHMONA DAKOT V'SHIVA CHALAKIM ACHAREI SHEVA BA'EREV

In Rambam's notation: Monday 1:151
On the clock, that's SUN, 7:47pm Israel Summer Time. This time can be adjusted for other locales, but the molad as announced is not touched
Actual molad is SUN 8 MAY 11:46am (8 hours earlier than announced time)

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