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 Sh'vat, which will be on the following Shabbat. Rosh Chodesh Shvat is one day (in our fixed calendar) since Tevet has only 29 days.

ROSH CHODESH SH'VAT YIH-YEH B'YOM SHABBAT KODESH HABA ALEINU V'AL KOL YISRA'EL L'TOVA:
The Molad will be: Thu (Jan.18), 10:13pm

HAMOLAD YIH-YEH LEIL SHISHI, SHLOSHIM V’SHALOSH DAKOT V’ASARA CHALAKIM ACHAREI ESER [THU 22h 33m 10p]

In Rambam notation: VAV (Friday) 4h 604 chalakim (Rambam does not use minutes, rather chalakim of which there are 1080 in an hour)

The actual (astronomical) molad is FRI 19 JAN 06:01 (almost 8 hours after the announced molad)
20 Tevet is the 802nd yahrzeit of the Rambam. At the same time we mark the passing of that great Moshe, we read in Parshat HaShavua of the birth of the original great Moshe
The 24th of Tevet is the 194th yahrzeit of the Baal HaTanya and the 53rd yahrzeit of Rabbi Eliyahu Dessler

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