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... Prime time for Kidush L'vana was last Motza'ei Shabbat. For those who have not yet said KL, we've got another Motza"Sh for you. Last op for KL this month is the eve of 15 Sivan, all night. Don't wait, though. If possible, say KL any night until then (except for Leil Shabbat) And another thing... We have previously spoken of Shavuot as the CULMINATION of Pesach. And so it is, for Torah and Eretz Yisrael. Yet Shavuot is more like a graduation, COMMENCEMENT, if you will. It is really both. What began on Pesach, culminated on Shavuot. We started the process of (physical) freedom on Pesach and reached the spiritual heights on Shavuot with the Sinai experience. So too coming to Eretz Yisrael and the building of the Beit HaMikdash were culminations. Yet now the challenge of living a Torah life BEGINS in earnest. [The
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