Birkat HaChodesh: Blessing the New Month by Rabbi Dr. Ahron Adler

thank you grandson thank you that was that was Shabbat that was Shabbat yeah yeah yeah he my my grandson laned uh he laned almost as fast as my son did Mitzvah and it shows that both uh have their eyes in the sky um when my sonan was Mitzvah was so there if you remember 2third of the par you're ready at two3 of the par my father sh went over to him and he said you know it was right after purum he said you know the minut of reading with one breath was only said about the 10 sons of H wasn't for the first two Paras of Kisa but that's how that's how it sounded like but all right b as usual the Shar memory of elisheva FR elisheva Sima bat Zalman um the trip to Poland went well thank God we all come back okay and um today and next week next Monday will actually be our last Shure of this particular season as the OU is going to be in flux for a few weeks even though they will be shum the week of the 12 but I mentioned to Rabbi Sam that I already thought there wouldn't be and I already have something in place there so next next Monday will be our last it'll bees and we're going to complete that page that we began a few weeks ago of zimra and Hal and being that we say halel next Monday so we'll talk about complete this discussion of Hal next week this coming Shabbat is biresh and uh so we're going to do something about bires um there will be somewhat of a Umesh a vacation from the shum at the center and as you may have heard um the Israel Center is relocating I don't know if it's permanent temporary the offices are not going to be here the offices are going to be in harim but the shim are going to be in different locations inim they piloted this as an experiment with um Baka already for the last two years in Rabbi finlin Sho but our Sho at least my shum are going to be held in Rabbi wi at the in the Bess tan but it's not going to be on Monday it's going to be on Wednesday Wednesday so this going to be announced and it's going to start in September I think at the same time I think at 9:15 you have to check the T tidbits but it's going to be starting September Wednesdays and uh we're going to do um from the until the and then afterwards we'll get back to some topic of uh I'll give some thought maybe we'll do some different topic so next Monday is the last year that's going to going to be here R and and then afterwards we'll resume uh in the RAB W which is ROV yishen 24 in ravia right you know all the all the streets in ravia are biblical commentaries commentators and rim you have ran you have Ezra and and you have radak and so on so where and rambam also Ben myON is rambam because they didn't want to call ramban RA and rambam and people would get mixed up so they called the Mes in Hebrew Ben myON Mes in Hebrew means the son of myON so you have been myON so so the street that today is aishin was originally Udi Rudi and but uskin was then the was the chairman of the Jewish agency and the building was right here and he wanted a street named after himself so they moved rud Ley to a different neighborhood and he became one of the biblical ComEd no no no but he became that's what happened he insisted question is parking the question is they parking um there's sometimes parking don't go up k k because there you'll never get but in the side streets there sometimes you get parking right should I give you an idea Park in the um in the Wolfson building the wolson building it's free parking there and um you know if he asks you if you're using the supermarket so say yes and then go in and buy a chocolate that's all but usually they don't ask when you go into the it's a free parking it's a block away or the medical center right or doctor right shouldn't need it right right you're going to the doctor B you're a Gana you know not ask they don't usually don't ask right right okay it's of great interest that that's somewhat of an attraction in shes today especially those that have big so you get the great synagogue and so on inquire combo soes remember when lived in bar Park so M Kit's yite is actually coming up he died in 1966 in the end of the summer and beginning of el um we moved to Bar Park in ' 62 and my father of sham used to tell us mha is not getting any younger and he was right so we would try to in yish we say just get in a little bit once a year we went for for and once a year we went for and we also used to go to onas before rash so we had a little bit about mki thees was an attraction no doubt and yet in it's not mentioned that we do it's mentioned incidentally by The Who says that we don't say so you look at number one three lines down four lines down from it says the custom is say that we say and at the end of the line it says so what is a aim is actually Yar a collective Yar that was instituted after the pums of 1096 1096 was the programs of the main city of Jewish centers of of shum Shin Spire Veria which is worms and magia which is mines those three cities that we actually make reference to in in some of our kote on Tish uh we talk about those pams and the original institution of saying AAR was for twice a year the Shabbat before shab and the Shabbat before TSH so those two Shabbat were that where there was this Collective Yar for these cities of ashkenaz um after the 1648 pums it was upgraded to say it every Shabbat except for a Shabbat that might be some type of aim of some sort and one of the Shabbat that would not be said would be AES except the shabbatot in the days of the where also there was aut so would say even after thees of of and after the in Thea here in K instituted to say every single Shabbat and nobody else picked up on that except for except that during this war this was since there were quite a few ra including in America said we should say every Shabbat and my we're doing this in but not every picked up on that as well so in this context of it says that's what we say on Shabbat by so which really means a Shabbat that if it would be a day and a weekday we wouldn't say likees like Kan like this like that all kinds of days in the calendar that we don't say but it happens to be a Shabbat we don't say anyway but in we wouldn't say which is also a type of of the over the death ofu by the way so we don't say and then it says also so those are days and then it says and there are places we don't say except for the days of where we do say even though it's of of or so this is how sneaks into in the back door by in the context of those shab that we do not say a so even a is an add-on only from the 12th Century F from the 11th century further after the 1096 and there's certain days that we don't say certain we do and that's how the um in I remember um there are different calendars that say that onab you say but and some say just the opposite for we say and for for not there I I I coined a new disease it's called the AAR syndrome in Hebrew and that is a person who has in his Talis bag different calendars and whatever the sh does he whips out the calendar of the opposite just to make trouble he's a troublemaker and I had such a person in raote who suffered chronically from and I once went I took him privately to the side and I said can you tell me who authored the aim and when it entered into the S of course knowing he wouldn't have a clue I said until you find that out you don't have a right to say if you say it or not that's all because it was ridiculous he he was just a troublemaker that's all and the truth of the matter is the original min of just twice a year you can still see it in authentic frankurt communities that is RA Brer in washing Heights and a particular Sho in Zurich and one Sho in London what in Amsterdam you have it authentic authentic Frank those who have Min Frankfurt and my my father-in-law who was born in Frankfurt became was 75 we we bought him a a book a big safer it was called Min Frankfurt and we told them that the Frankfurt Jews had har stayed for another 10 minutes to get this book these are airons you know M Frankfurt like you know you you you make kid you wash before you make Kish Friday night all kinds of Min frankfur that are still known until this very day and I remember in Zur they said twice a year just for the Shabbat before and the Shabbat before so that's how sneaks into now Source number two is lifted out of the S Theon that we say introducing thees U and what's interesting is that this whole the god should renew the month and it should be and and then it comes this should give us you know means we should be strong and our bones should you know be able to be invigorated and people have already asked why is God-fearing mentioned twice to line before it says God-fearing and fear of sin and then afterwards we should have the love of and now so the the joke is that after you've just said the life of wealth and honor then people tend to lose their God-fearing status so they need the what's called a booster shot ofay that's the joke but if you take a look at source number three Source number three comes from the first chapter second chapter and there the gar tells us that when we complete so ends with and then there's another that's thrown in there which becomes an integral part of then you really finish now if you look at your s there's something more it says and and what is that so thear tells us that some of the had a after the a prayer after the prayer a daving after the daving so what what is the D aftering the I counted this there are 11 examples of a after the one of them it's actually the last on the in the list is what we say that's the one of the last ones so it's the am Raa it says R would say such and such somehow or another that caught the attention of those who put the Sid together finally in the days of the there where we have a sid that already looks like our and you have this after the it's there that's the last example but one of the examples is to that was said three times a day after shom and you have it right here the the beginning of the period of the at the end of his said the following this has nothing to do with the business was interpolated was thrown into this phrase when this of RAV became a monthly before know it became instituted to say the that ra would say three times a day every single is now taken out of context what we call in computer language cut and paste it was cut and pasted out of rav's Sid and and put pasted into our Sid fores and given such appropriateness but never said it was said every day so the was the was should be God's will I'm reading source three rather I wanted to see if you were listening it doesn't say it just says so is only mentioned once the second time as if to say after which means that when it was interpolated into the Sid for use fores at some stage got thrown in byat which really shouldn't be there it wouldn't should be there and most probably it happened because when manuscripts were copied so sometimes people copied by wrote he knew the word was and WR and they wrote and somehow it got in there by accident that seems to be what happened here because is actually there already when we say and there actually is there are three levels of AEM three levels one is the lowest level and that is you serve God because you fear pun impu you fear punishment you fear punishment you know if you do the a you're going to get sucked you're G to get hit so it's a low level of the rambam tells us in the end of that the lowest level of is this fear of sin or you do it because of compensation you know is going to reward you so reward and Punishment of course is there but if the only reason that you're serving a koshu properly is because you fear punishment or you looking forward for reward raah says that's a pretty low level and he says that's how we begin educating young people and that's how we educate people who may be adults but were never educated before so ladies don't get insulted now the rabam puts into one basket he's not taking a shot at women for God forbid being um you know delinquent in in in terms of intelligence he's taking he's putting together in a basket these are people who have not studied male adults who are amarim women were never properly taught and children so all of those the rabam says we have an obligation to bring up these people to the level of the next level which is from Love from AA and what is love the rambam was not a romanticist the rambam was not here with any degree of emotion whatsoever he says love is directly proportional to your knowledge and therefore he says all of the above women children and male adults who are ignorant have to study and study as deep as possible this is the famous rambam that the r based himself upon with regard to teaching women to on the highest level because if you go to the rambam talut it's very interesting normally the rambam will begin a section of Al there is a positive Mitzvah to do such and such and he'll name the Mitzvah and then get into the details he should have begun the section of talut there is a positive Mitzvah to study Tor he wouldn't have done that either he would have written there is a positive Mitzvah to teach Torah RA in his translation of the rambam's book of mitzvot does not translate the way the ion popular middle medeval translation is to teach to study rather and to teach he says the proper translation is it's to teach Tor and to and to study it of course you have to study it because you have if you don't study have nothing to teach the first seven of the is about teaching T and then afterwards in the eth says by the way you also have to study because if you don't study you have nothing to learn teach rather so you have to study t for the purpose of teaching T So before the r even gets to that the first word in ra is women women are exempt now he figured if a woman starts learning and only gets to the third line that she's exempt she's already studied two lines so let's let's put it down on the first word now what does that mean it means that there is some type of exemption on some level on some level and that's a sheer in itself but the r said but the ra when he talks about the MIT of love of God which is fulfilled by study not by kissing M seph theel there has nothing to do with kissing has nothing with love has to do with study intellectually connecting with the ra says women are there and why does he put together women with children and because women weren't formally taught that was a fact that was a fact of social life and that was changed by a personality who I stood by a just last week Sara Sara and when I remember the r gave that famous gar here in 1976 to the opening of the bit midash program at Stern college and it was well publicized um I asked R the next day how do you feel being a revolutionary he said revolutionary so Saro was a revolutionary after snar sha just became a question of syllabus that's what he said I upgraded the syllabus that's all syllabus Sara the founder of the bakov movement in 1918 and um we had chabas meal in her second building in KOCO in 1920 the building open 1927 and she was there s where she buried in Kau in the old SE in the actually the new Cemetery of kaka that was completely destroyed by the Nazis and there is one surviving Mata there not SAS but 1998 the the women organization the women of aat is of America came and put up a beautiful black marble Mata smack in the middle of the cemetery she's buried somewhere there they don't know where and and that that stands as a memorial till this very day so I was there just on the Monday before we went to the airport uh so we parted with the memory of s the um so the ra there says this AEM from that is there's from and then there's an exalted type of which is not fear but it's awe when the Tor says doesn't mean you have to be scared of God as God or afraid of God it means you have to have a and the r when he talks about the Mitzvah of or not but it's a higher order now take a look at in you remember who received the he says don't be like the servant who's being rewarded every time Ella you should be like the EV who serves his master not because of re receiving reward because you you you you're connected with the person you just want to do everything for that person and then it says and you should have God-fearing so the God-fearing there is the highest level of that's called a that's Mor and that's exactly what happens in the of the first is the low level of you're fearing God but you're fearing God because you know of the sin you don't want to be punished and afterwards it's out of love and finally so you have the three levels of the lowest level is fearing sin the next level is a and and that's through Tor is exactly what the ra explained that that that love is is facilitated by Torah study and then the highest level is your and that is to have awe and that a feeling of awe for God you're supposed to have for your rebi as well that the way you fear have or sorry the way you have or for for you should have it for your rebi as well that doesn't always happen but we had a big without re the it did happen those who knew the r knew that you stood before him you know just trembling and you thought very carefully before you open your mouth and talk to him and it trickled down to ra as well we didn't have that with raal ra you could be fxy fxy with him and and and just smooy smoozy with him but when you stood before in the G in the Yesa you measured your words you knew that you didn't want to waste his time if you had something to say and it wasn't how you doing today this way you never ever talked to him like that nor did you ever talk to the r like that and and it was this sensation of very much of that was there with the R so you have this that we say as a preamble to the bires so they took the of RA so much so that there some people when they get to the end of this on they actually say so you have this in this text of source number two some say and some say so what is rabim I don't know the of everybody but the of R it was was thrown in because RAV was the composer of this but it wasn't fores fores it was for every day three times a day so okay if you say you say you don't say you don't say it it's not an integral part of the but where does the thees really kick off so people think it's fromes so and so so and so right next week this Shabbat they'll say but most probably say fine but is actually the beginning of and as the S correctly say the takes the in his hand at that point why why does he hold the sa he's going to announce so and so so and so and then we somehow or another say we bless and all of wherever they may be that's interesting wherever they may be up until this point it's p cut and pasted out of on the we say all this is straight out but here on Shabbat we have a few add-ons The Comedians Sayes is good Herring for The KES hering means to hear well right but it means good tidings good news and boy this is something that since we use so often right and then in the winter we throw in should rain in its in a proper time and of course that's not mentioned until when it's the rain season and I actually saw in some that in this we don't say this not a minute but in the summer instead of saying rain in a season but to say as a is appropriate do is appropriate even in the summer so we say in the summer months so there was some in the flip side of saying rain in its proper time that you're not you're not going to say that in tamuz and in the summer so to say something about it's not now and always works and for sure we need no doubt so you have the so what is performed miracles for us and delivered us from this is all he should in the very short time redeem us again and bring together from all corners of the world what does that mean we're all friends are we all friends read the newspapers you find that it's not so clear what does it mean what does that mean me and then the goes on to announce thees and he's holding a What's Happening Here what is this all about what is thises if if we if the if we want to give the month of blessing why don't we do it on next Monday which ises the answer is we do in mus we do we do it in the m so what is this the Shabbat before people in so people in sh they were announcing rodes what's matter you didn't get a calendar ores from Thea women you know with an envelope you know to give a donation right so or any other organization that gives you an envelope at that tells you you look at the calendar you see when it'ses what is this all about it's a z for what it's not a zer for the no it's not a it's a for the responsibility of B to publicize the rashes where do we see that let's take a look a little further in the page and we'll get back to the mishas on Source number four Source number four the rambam tells us we do not calculate and establishes or or create the New Year this is all talking about when this was done as a Act of B the ba in is and it was only in is as it says there's one exception if the who is the claimed gador not like today who's the gador just tell me who you voted for in the last election and I'll tell you who your godor is that's all everybody's got their godor so if you're in pun his is rash if you're a sh person it's this one it's ra he died so what you he's still there if it's if you're clearly everybody with his godor so there's no acclaimed godor today at all at all it's regional it's regional right you can't even have one RAB Rashi right today you don't even have any by the way way it's illegal you know that there's no Rashi did anybody lose any sleep over that nobody lost any sleep right because it expired right there's no Rashi today right that's right there's no Rashi because of political Shenanigans that's why there no other word for it so okay nobody lost any sleep over it and uh I can tell you that when the RS offered the position 1959 after R herach passed away he thought about it for a half a year no it wasn't just not for me thought about it for a half here and then turned it down so I asked the r and I'm sure a thousand other people asked the r why he turned it down and there were a thousand answers out there and I bet you D said a thousand different things to different people it's all true fine so I asked him was it true that because his uncle who was still alive reev salv was vehemently against it so says it's true the uncle was against it but he says that wasn't the critical thing what was the I pushed he said because look you know the the the chief ravenet doesn't emanate from sh it's a law in theet so it's called in Hebrew you you're working for the government you're working for the government and therefore you can't say what you want to say when you want to say how you want to say you surrendered your Independence and he believed that a r has to be independent and therefore he said look I have respect for the those who were before and ruk R Herzog Rael I have great respect for all of them but it's not for me said not for me and then as an afterthought M as an after thought he says you know in the offices of of of all the uh government leaders and the president house here by you have a photo gallery of all the predecessors it's true I saw it my own eyes in the betan you see it in the in the r prime minister's office and the Min ministers they all have all the predecessors and by the Rashi by the chief Rabin there's also photos gallery of the predecessors R says you know I don't I don't have a problem being on the wall with those who my predecessors here I might have a problem being on the wall with those who come afterwards wow you see he was Nai he was a navi You Know Chief RAB went to jail and this and that yeah yeah yeah yeah yep yep yep yep yep what's the difference let's not talk about it let's not me me miny mo okay the knew what he was talking about so the um the idea ofal say there once was one who was the acclaimed gor that was Raba if he would have been he would have been carrying with him the name of cl personifying cl and he could have done because he's walking around on his shoulders with all of Cl which means thear is teaching us there that KES and I this putting the calendar into place is a function of CLA Israel it's not judicial nobody's on trial here but the judges are like the Electoral College they are representing all of CLA Israel and that is very very important to know that it is a function of CLA Israel and that's why to in order to have a of Kes of B of the judicial activity number one the use of the SE Tyra is there to create an environment of the the place of the God's presence which was always there in judicial action we say it every Tuesday Morning in the sh sh and that's why the judges had to have a Talis with the Talis over the head because there was a presence of that was one of the first acts of of of sitting down in judiciary was they they put a Talis on and a Talis was only put on when they are standing in front of the and that's why they did the Talis and that's why there's a Talis by by the way cu's presence is there and that's what is atalis during daving cu's presence is there that's the idea of to be so the the idea of taking a is is actually to bring the presence of the ba in create that kind of scenario of presence of a but it must necessarily be in the presence of CLA Israel and therefore what do we ask for let's get all of Cl Isel back together and er Israel so that this batin can function once again it won't function until CL is back into in is and then we say the said the only object that has the ability of unifying all of Cl Isel is a sa everything else we divided everything else but the sa even though there are different ways modes of interpretation and different hug him different customs and all that but everyone will sub subscribe to the the sanctity the kadus makes no difference if it's a asazi makes no difference that every Jew will will be mes will sacrifice for a SAA and do everything to save a SAA no matter which sh it comes from there's something about a I said this once in a inote a man a gentleman finished whatever finished he made have see him may may have been the Dai series of sh and he invited his extended family to the dinner and at the extended dinner the at this dinner the extended family included people who were there without kot and people there with and every family has you know a few who are off the D here and a few are doing this and a few are that it was just a beautiful site and I said only a sa could have brought this family together in this kind of a me get together because that's the power of a SA that's why the said that's why this holds the when he says the because if we wouldn't hold the you could challenge that it may not be so valid and so authentic but holding the SE this can happen and here the rambam tells us something phenomenal in Source number five on the bottom of the page with regard to the Mitzvah of Kes sanctifying the Moon by judicial action the Ramba believes that if there is no baon so how do we have rashes today well it's in the calendar what is that calendar is a piece of paper so how does it work so most of the believe that at the end of the tenure of the ba in Isel there was an emergency measure that was used that rodes can be Sanctified not only for a particulares but also for subsequent and what they did in the days of the second Hill not the famous Hami but Hill aeni who's a great grandson of rabi so we're talking about the period of the already in is they Sanctified every until until like in a in a emergency action that's how most understand it the ramam understands it differently he says what they did was they gave us the calendar of the 19 years that just repeats itself every 19 years that the raham agrees with the s but he says thees is actually effectively initiated by having at least a million of Jews and AR Isel every rodes to activate the calendar if you wouldn't have a Minon of Jews and her Isel in any generation to activate the calendar then that day is not rodes and if there was a y in that month if it happened to ban there's no PES for anybody and there's no rash for anybody and there's no sukus for anybody no yum for anybody no Kan for anybody nothing nothing nothing if you don't have the rosesh Sanctified and the sanctification of the Moon according to rashes according to ram in our days is by having at least a million of Jews and ARS Israel who represent all of CLA Israel and the rahan believes that Jews abroad I know the Jews and Teck didn't liked when I said this to them are just Mish they're related they're related that's all but Isel is here so today we have more than 10 Jews in AR Israel we have almost 7 million Jews in AR Israel today more than 10 and look at what the Rah says here in Source five he says Ra's transl Ra's translation is that's out of RA translation it's one of the fundamentals and here in Theon it's this a a root one of the greatest root roots of of of our belief and uh and he says um Turn the Page where it's underlined Turn the Page where it's underlined on top well not underlined bold where it's bold yes we have the calculation because they made the who made the calculation is we don't have visual sighting of the moon today it's all by calculation we rely on their calculation that they made fine but that's not the end of it that's not the end of it drop down till three lines to the end of this Source I'm sorry five lines before the source where it says I'm sorry six lines before the end of the source where it says I'm going to add something here this is something that the ra deserve ganen just for these lines which means if I could just postulate hypothesized a scenario there be no Jews in in any given rodes and then before he even goes further he knows you're already fainting you're fainting God forbid God forbid like somebody say and that's what he says God forbid God has assured us that he would never ever annihilate clel and not having a minion you'll see where he gets minion a minion of Jews and ARS Israel a minimum minimum Quorum of am Isel that's called the annihilation of am Isel and then Hitler wins that's called the annihilation of Amel if there be no minion of Jews and AR Isel Amel is is basically annihilated and because said he would never do this so this would never happen but theoretically he says that had the of old our calculation our calendar is worth nothing nothing we don't have the right in to do this to create why is all this in subject and the r explained because ER is the place of Cl as R's teaching and and is as it says when was that said right at where wasel formed where was it Formed that's where it happens the formation of that's why where did that take place at then we ask should give us the possibility of renewing the whole process by bringing all we're creating a scenario and we are just as a z g to do something that the batin had the obligation to do and we'll see this in a moment to publicize when rosesh will be that's what doing here we're publicizing when rashes will be as a to the act of ba now some of you may remember that in the re Isel Sid there is a there is a um I'm not opening just to read my mail I'm opening this because I took a picture of the I don't want tole it in many of our shs we have a little bit of a added DAV just to make it a little bit yum dick you know as we say y dick so one of the things that we do is there is a said but it's not exactly the way it's said on it reads and to us not only them but also Us in other words G really started but we're hoping that it should be completed now we had a gentleman in our a big and he before I came he was adamant that this should be the that should be said every month and he even had the gim print up stickers of the print and stick it on the mus shabas print byes and when I came there I had a canary I said no I to I had had very good relation with this person and the only compromise I was able to work out with him was that it's going to be the B's choice but I and very rare things would I make a fuss but here I explained that what was up what was changed for y to make it yut compatible is very nice and dandy and that's the chief Rabin it and I have nothing to say about that but that's not the point of the M ones we're not talking about Med is we're talking about where was formed that was the poent as they say that was the point of the to to go back to the moment of the formation of Cl Israel and that K Israel then becomes part and parcel of our experience and er Israel and to that end we turn toh and say give us the opportunity to bring everybody back to Israel to join who's already here on the second side of this page in Source number uh eight you have the rambam teaching us the let me just look at six for a second you'll see what a ra defines is called who this is going to be a tricky thing where does hem call them but then the even if you just have 10 10 means a minion you have a minion of Cl in is that's clel less than that there is no CL in is and raak points out in his edition of the mishna commentary from of source number six where does call CLA everal he says he doesn't know and I stuck my neck out and I said I think it's Source number seven that it begins as if to sayt have a hunch that this is the where used the phrase in and it's related to this and it's related to is and I think the rambam simply condensed this where it's and it's I think that's what the r refer to but the idea is that 10 people in 10 Jews in Israel that's CL is look at source number eight Source number eight the ra teaches us that originally when there wasting of the Moon they used to light bonfires on the s on the Apex of many many uh uh mountains in ER Israel and it spread from Mountain to Mountain and this was the means of communication so those who are far away from will quickly enough know that it's rodes but then there was the group called theim in is that started making fires to mess up the system the system didn't work any longer so that's when the started sending Messengers Messengers and because the messengers never reach bavel at Le within two weeks before rashesh of Nissan they never knew when PES was and here was born y sheni y sh was born because of this because theim never made it to B and this from here you see and look at the next Source in um in in in number nine where the ram says bis he says there you have this concept of figuring out the raah starts teaching us how to figure out the precise moment when when the witnesses could have possibly seen the moon he says like the astronomist know how to figure this one out what do we call that moment the mad we call it the moment well they're astronomers they're astrologers right but the r here he doesn't mean he actually means astronom the Rah knew the difference between astronomy and astrology and many times are the astrologist but he meant those who know something about the constellations and they have it figured out nicely in a calculation and then the ramam goes on to give us all the calculations takes some about eight nine chapters to break it down into the mathematics and physics and the astrophysics of of of of astronomy to figure out exactly what it is we call it the mulad and the Min is that the Gabi announces the mulad and there are some shes that think that the moon only understands Yiddish right I'm sure there's still sh in Isel who they say the you know and they give the day and the hour and the because the hour is divided into into 1080 and they get it down to you know the micro micro micro and it's called the M I got news for you the M the laana understands Hebrew also and it can be said in any language but what is interesting is that there were different opinions whether the mulad should be said regionally whichever you New York the m is going to be a different hour what than than let's say in Yim but the general custom evolved that we give the M of er Isel or the M of no matter where you are why because what makes rodes for the New Yorkers and those in Chicago and Los Angeles and in Tokyo is a rodes here inel this is what makes rodes not what goes on in and therefore the M of is the m that's usually given yeah they don't announce the M because not every place picked up on the Min to announce the M the Min of announcing the M kicked in after there was already a minute of saying bodes so some wanted as an addon you know to give the price precise moment but the precise moment is going to be in it's going to be in right there's no AA to say it you like that one there's no a to say it it's like raal was once asked do you not say t on a morning on Monday or Thursday if there's a b Mitzvah boy selling his Mitzvah he said it doesn't say anywhere that the day of a boy's B Mitzvah you have to say t you get that doesn't say so the answer really is that you're supposed to say tan doesn't say that you don't say you can say privately but that's not what it meant for it was meant as a public announcement in SCH and that's why is in before mus after where the attendance in sh is at its peak right all the lake have come all the early you know the guys who leave early are still there so that's why Bish is there that's why is there at that point and that's why Talen gim is there because you want to have the crowd at that point and more people come to sh on Shabbat than come to in a weekday roses and that's why it's not on rodes but this announcement is made when you have the biggest crowd because the purpose of thises is to remember the responsibility of baon to get the word out to the crowd and that's why we do it so if somebody's home you want to say it you can say it there's no AA to say it but certainly that was never part of the Min the C was that it was something that was done in the in the as public as you can make it right then and there yeah the purpose of announcing purpose of announcing OFA was just an add-on just to say that if we would have the mitvah of Kes the first moment that the witnesses would be able to see it would be at that precise moment that's when they could have seen it they must probably didn't see it at that moment because the the moon the visibility of the mo moon was minuscule but that would but if it would be if the witnesses would come and they would interrogate them and they would say so when they see the moon well I saw it at 10:00 at night they would say you're a bunch of liars because the mid wasn't until 11: no you couldn't have seen it possibly physically so this was part of the information that the judges would have when they interrogated the witnesses who came and they said they saw the moon you can only see it after the mo before the couldn't see it cuz it's already blackout from and if you saw something before the M you actually saw last month at the moment well if you squint a little bit if you squint it should be a fraction of a moment that you'd be able to see the slightest sliver of white the slightest sliver of course afterwards you see it larger what if you know what it look for if you know what it look for it you have to know what to look for the mishna tells us that in the uh upper uh story of RA in his he had he had an office the president the head of the of the he had a board with with moon shapes and the even talks about how can you have shapes talks about how did he even have it but that's a sh of but here it said he had shapes of moons and and he said did you see this did you see this did you see this way or that way and so on and and that was done to to trip up the witnesses to see if they actually saw the moon and and um those Witnesses had to be brought to baon even on Shabbat you know just to make sure that they got the rodes in of course what's going to happen in mem when we reinstitute the batin there's going to be telecommunication uh there in the baon and every Gabby is going to have his little cell phone wide open 600 in the morning and they're going to hear live makash makash and the Gaba is going to go and everybody's going to know it's it's going to be a great day and we will fulfill once again from the word and said it's in your hands to make thees it's in your hands to make the and that's why we will say next Monday okay next next week again we'll have our last she here in the center we'll deal withes ones toes and then we will continue in Ines in September in Rabbi W on Wednesdays at 10 9:15 okay