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 on the following day, Sunday and on Monday.

ROSH CHODESH ELUL YIH-YEH MACHAR B'YOM RISHON U'V'YOM SHENI HABA ALEINU V'AL KOL YISRA'EL L'TOVA
The Molad is on Motza’ei Shabbat 10:43pm Israel Summer Time which we announce thusly:

HAMOLAD YIH-YEH B'MOTZAEI SHABBAT ARBA DAKOT V'ACHAT ASAR CHALAKIM ACHAREI ESER

The actual molad is only about an hour earlier, at 9:46pm
First op for Kiddush L’vana would be Tue Sep.6 at 10:43pm, except that the moon sets on Tue at 8:20pm. Therefore, first op (3-day minhag) is Wed. night.

If you look in the western sky in early evening, you will see two very bright “stars” fairly close to each other. They are the planets Venus (brighter) and Jupiter.

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