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... KL according to Minhag Yerushalayim began Sun. Mar. 29th. For 7-day people, first op is Thu. April 2nd. Last op is Thu. April 9th, which is the second night of Pesach, Thursday night - but not all night. Only until 1:24am early Friday morning. Remember that the times for KL should be adjusted for location, meaning that some places around the world will have an earlier or later starting time and earlier or later deadline. Which results in a difference of a day, sometimes. For example, California is 10 hours earlier than Israel, so their last op for KL this month is Thursday at 3:24pm. Which means that Wednesday night is really their last op. We in Israel can say KL on Thursday night, but Californians cannot. Also remember that KL on Yom Tov (or Friday night) is permitted only when that night is the last opportunity. Hopefully, we will all have already said KL by then. On Shabbat Parshat Shmini, 24 Nissan, April 18th - we bench Rosh Chodesh Iyar, which will be on Friday & Shabbat, April 24-25. The molad: Fri 19h 7m 2p HAMOLAD YIH-YEH B'LEIL SHABBAT, SHEVA DAKOT USHNEI CHALAKIM ACHAREI SHEVA ROSH CHODESH IYAR YIH-YEH B'YOM SHISHI UV'YOM SHABBAT KODESH HABA ALEINU V'AL KOL YISRA'EL L'TOVA: [The Parshat Tzav Homepage]
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