What's Rosh Chodesh? - Part 1 - Rabbi Reuven Lauffer

okay we're gonna have a little look at its rice clay dish today and so we have a little little so we could try again I have a little look at Rosh Hodesh the first word is rosh chodesh come from so it's kind of it's kind of neat because you know we just we just had Chavez voracious and over there there's a rather interesting little instance you know the cause of the mad Russian talk about that when God created the Sun and the moon so if you take a look at you know they were they were big great big balls of sources of light and the moon comes to God and says to God ain schnabel awesome assumption kiss a fat it's not possible for two kings to use one crown that you've got the Sun gives light in the day in the mood gives light at night and it seems clear from the description of the of the of the creation and certainly from the dialogue that takes place now between the moon and God that the moon was giving off light a lot of light not like today we'll see in a minute so God says to the moon ok you know what you're right make yourself small and and that'll take care of the problem right I think first of all it's a little less than over here but you know maybe maybe don't complain stick to the mattress your hair I guess I guess all right and if you really can't swing it and let's swap with your roommates whilst he's not there or something but the so the moon and the moon then says to God it's interesting God God's not saying that it's not true what you're saying right it's not the Gods coming and arguing with the moon and saying you know what that's a ridiculous assumption if I made you both the sides and I made you then obviously it's clear that's what you're supposed to be but rather God says okay you know what you're right so make yourself smaller to the moon then comes back to God and says but hold on a second what no why am I being penalized for drawing your attention something which is clear so God then says you know what you're right again and I'm going to give you the stars as a some kind of a compensation and actually according to according to the sages you take they'd say they say if you take the light of the moon and light of the stars together it equals the light of the Sun it's just it's not as powerful because the stars are spread out all over the place so it's it's you know it's been spread thin so I saw a chainsaw very interesting idea if if what if what the moon is saying is true so why is the moon being penalized that was a question by the way I just I don't want to you know frighten anybody over here this is the penalty it's the little has never been to have the same role otherwise it would be bright all the time nor would it be able to sleep okay so what are you saying saying it's not a penalty you're saying it's just uh it's just being a better equipped for its role hua that's very nice actually why was the moon question did creation period that's my quick I I think you know what we're gonna wear a tie your question together with what you just said I think because obviously there's a necessity over here there's a necessity for the moon to have a certain potential and for that potential to be taken and to be reduced but to be spread out as well right there is a lesson over here of you know understanding your place and reaching your potential in the wood in the correct way which means that it seems that the question the question that the Sun is asking the moon is a valid and the question that the moon is asking God is it's a valid question right what's he saying you know you can't have two people fulfilling the same function you imagine it in a job you've got two people doing exactly the same thing what what do you need them for you know make one more senior make one less senior but you know what was the point of having these two people doing exactly same thing I moon didn't offer a solution that's interesting the moon didn't offer a solution which is you know it's fascinating you know where you know where it says that much later on there's that there's a Torah portion called yet row where yet Roe comes to moisture a banal and he says to moisture a venue look you know if the whole thing that mojo going to spend all day dealing with judging the people and and yet Roe comes at the end of the day he said you know you can't you can't do this what every day you're going to sit here you're gonna judge the people you know that you're going to get exhausted the people get exhausted and then he gives a whole he gives a whole idea of what to do alrighty offers a whole solution to have a hierarchy of judges right and to make one person in charge of ten on one person in charge of fifty one person under 100 and that way it will relieve the pressure from moisture a bonus buy once so I don't remember where I saw it but one of the early authority says what you just said why did why did you chore merit to have a Torah portion named after him not because he not because he pointed out the problem but because he offered a solution which was we can all point out problems right we can all point out what's not not good yeah but pointing out what's not good and identifying what can be done in order to help that I didn't order them make it better that's something which really is a great idea so okay that's a great idea maybe part of the problem over here is that the moon didn't offer any solutions it's not enough to come to God and say you know you can't it's like coming to the boss and saying look you know me and him we're doing exactly the same job so what do you suggest so you know what the boss would probably be perfectly in his rights to say you know what you're quite right I'm gonna promote him and you can stay in the position that you're in right or worse i'm going to keep him in the position that he's in and i'm gonna i'm gonna reduce your your your job right how do we deal with the you know i don't know where the fact that really the moon is illuminated by the Sun is there any anything in that yes very much so you know we're cutlet let's come to a little bit later on it is still with single we I saw very beautiful idea not very not not not not very I'm not doing very well they're not very long ago made weed sense like this that the the problem the problem with it why was the moon penalized in the Sun not what may God choose a moon or not the Sun because the moon was bothered by it but some wasn't bothered by it the great creation was interesting you've got two people doing exactly the same job the one who comes and says look what's going on over here we're both doing the same job he's bothered by the fact that there's two of them the other ones not bothered so the bustle Satan so if you know what hold on a second if it bothers you so fine let's make a differentiation over here and we'll give you less of a responsibility and you'll get less of a salary and this one over here wasn't bothered by anything so let him continue right I so it's very very reading this again from which for the meddra she rather shaky just just you know what I'm going to tie it into what you said right I think like this if the person comes to the boss and he says look you know this is ridiculous me and him are doing the same job so I've got a guy I've got an idea right I'm not asking for more money but you know what there's a thing over here that needs to be taken care of as well right so let me I'll take care of that as well so he's not only coming and pointing out what the problem he's pointing out what you know he's got a solution over here as well in the hope that the boss will realize how dedicated his fellow is right and then he'll maybe he'll give my promotion but if you come without any kind of solution whatsoever just pointing out what the problem is so you're opening up the possibility for something happening that you don't want to have happen are we all we do occasionally run it should because you're doing enough or because of the new month because it's really it's really both it's really it's tied up together it gets uncovered oh so sure it says like this not only did god say i'll give you the stars right but god said the jewish year will follow the lunar cycle which means that even though it looks to us like the moon has got the raw end of the deal over here but really as far as we're concerned an inside of our jewish identity we need the moon much more than we need the Sun under the Sun is that it keep us warm in the Sun it brings energy and heat I understand that for sure i'm not talking on our other practical basis right now i'm talking on a spiritual basis we live according to the cycle of the Moon which means that God gives the moon a dimension which it didn't have before bye so how's this for an idea I'm just thinking out loud I just thought about this this with just now right but let's see if it works God reduces the physical dimension of the moon and enhances the spiritual dimension of the moon right here listen what do you think about that idea I'm just thinking out loud but I think I think that's I think there's a beautiful idea we already do a cottage vocal reduces a physical dimension of the moon and makes it a more spiritual dimension there's a little like a little lesson over here write that for us that in order to become more more familiar to be more tapped into the spiritual so maybe it maybe does need letting go a little bit of the physicality in order to recognize the more spiritual dimensions that exist over here so here let's have a look at something else will start building some start building something very beautiful over here the sages has I'll say that our College Baku is analogous to the Sun the Sun never changes the Sun is completely consistent 365 days of the year the Jewish nation is analogous to the moon right how does it work so we see there are two very important dimensions of the moon which are going to attach us to the Jew is it going to attach itself to the choose the first one is that the moon has no independent source of light of its own which means that it gets all of its light is a reflection of the Sun which is what that's what our function is here right we as Jews that's our function here in this physical world to bring God's light down into the world which is why there's a very famous phrase that's found in the prophets called an oil a Gorean the Jewish people are supposed to be a light unto the nations right how do we get to be a light unto the nations by reflecting the light of God's I bringing god's spirituality down into the world there's another dimension is very that very connected to the Jews and to Jewish history is a fact of the moon waxes and wanes the moon grows for 15 days it grows for 15 days it becomes smaller and smaller Jewish history reflects that Jewish history you know we grow we become powerful we've become we become something very great that brings that spiritual they mentioned that into the world and then we start losing our spiritual connection and we start waning I pointed out here once a while ago but it's such an incredible I do it so it's worth hearing it again it really is that that there are 15 generations from Avram aveeno until the building of the first temple until content until King Solomon 15 generations which they correspond to the 15 days of the month that the moon grows avril lavigne was a nascent beginning of the Jewish people and we grow and grow and grow until the zenith of the Jewish history was King Solomon the first temple right there were over miracles taking place you know it was unbelievable what happened in the time of King Solomon and the first temple it was a it was a semi messianic era so you've got 15 days of the moon that correspond to 15 generations where the moon grows and the Jewish people grow and then after King Solomon there are 15 generations and take you to the destruction of the first temple and that corresponds to the 15 days of the month where the moon is waning and waiting and becoming smaller as well and so it finally disappears which means that the moon represents it represents us and we represent the moon right and we're joined together and that's why the months are George the Jewish months are all lunar months right and that's why if you know anything about how long a lunar month is it's really 29 and a half days long and that's why rosh chodesh which were in today is sometimes two days and sometimes one day normally they switch off so this month is two days next month will be one day why is that because they knew the month is really 29 in the half days long so rush footage this month will be for two days next month it'll be for one day and they'll measure each other out which means that the month will be 29 29 days long or 30 days long and each month will met will balance out the other one today's responded share which I'm sure you must have realized when you were in Sherwood you know praying like the clappers so you're here so that that's that's at the dimension of what made such fun is so incredibly important to us is that this is how we are going to count our we're going to account our identity over here we're going to find our identity Jewish identity through the month that we move into sorry Russia polish is like a beginning of the month it was hot is the beginning of the month so Rosh means the head and hottish means month right so a Scottish in the beginning of the month on here right now today is responding tomorrow will be Rose Cottage because today is the 30th day of the month and tomorrow is the first day of the month not to why is it not always two days here because then you'll have too much which punish me so what will happen next month is that the month will be 29 days long and then the first day of the month will be rushed for this and I guess that's had balances itself a because really is 29 and a half days long so this month is 30 days long next month is 29 days on it's my fight the two days correspond with whether they were was see another fruit on the 20 now interestingly enough the that the boy lid the birth of the new moon which was I can't remember it was it's today it's I think it was this morning is the beginning the beginning where you you can't you can't see the new moon at its very beginning that that sliver of banana in my age right Tuesday morning that's what I remember again the very beginning of the month are very beginning of that noon when you can't see it and it becomes a mid-sized shown at some point we'll talk about the concept of kiddush levana which has to be done when when the moon is able to be seen in the sky right and that's that's gonna be a little bit a little bit later on issues you know a Scottish is coming from a cottage bar it's just like this i call it very first myth so that God gave our hands this is going to fit it dutifully the very first Miss for the God gave to the Jewish people when they were still in a jerk just before we left is ahoy dish as they like em that this month is the month of for you ahoy dish has a lock em the sages teach that God taught Moshe obey know how to identify the new moon right had a realize where it's supposed to be because the moon also moves around in the sky it's not always in the same place so you've got to be able to identify where it is and what it looks like in order to be able to say that the new moon is now taking it's now a new month and I cottage bothell says like this most incredible idea I holy shat there like air that the month is for you God is giving over the the car the power of the month is being given over to the Jewish people only by seeing the move only by seeing them all which means we need ages you know oh very good right the truth of the matter is that there's no need for witnesses to come to Jerusalem to say that they saw the moon and for the Sanhedrin to say there's going to be a rosh chodesh because they know exactly when it was supposed to be anyway here hello the second not not the famous Hillel that his grandson wrote the calendar that we're using today was written 2000 years ago right which means that they knew perfectly well when the new moon was and they know exactly when it was going to be seen and I know exactly when Rose Cottage was all of this was being done in order to publicize the fact that the zeros Floyd is that God says no bring witnesses and they should come and they should testify and then you'll pronounce that there's a new moon and the Gomorrah says the most astonishing thing if a mistake is made let's say for example they come and they pronounce it today's rasoi dish the witnesses came to Jerusalem they came to the temple and they gave their testimony and a mistake was made somewhere and they didn't accept the testimony and then the next day it was declared a new month now it may not sound like such a big deal to you people but it really is an enormous deal why's that because if you imagine that let's say for example it the month of Tishrei or the month of Nissan where we're talking about that the festival's right well the festival the festivals are all Torah obligations when God says that you know that pacer has to be on the fifteenth of Nissan and if the sadies make a mistake and they call it the fifteenth of Nissan but it's really the sixteenth of me son well what's going to be with piece off that really is place a call it's not place up so listen to what the Camargue Martha's most astonishing thing God says that if a mistake is but a genuine mistake is made then God says I'll go along with it which means that if they make a mistake and they make the 15th of New Sun instead of a suit you know they make it on the 16th instead of on there on the fifteenth God says you know what fine okay so that'll be the fifteenth of New Sun in the shibaemon as well we're going to keep everything in tandem what's the idea the idea is that the months belong to us the months are ours in order for us to keep to keep in a state of you know growth we're going to grow and we're going to connect together with God and that's one of the reasons why a month in Hebrew is called kodesh because chodesh comes from the word Kadosh you like the idea of it had shoot it occurred sure is renewal here's a lot it's the most beautiful idea that the month represent the concept of renewal but within the month we're going to renew ourselves and we're going to grow we're going to grasp the various dimensions and concepts that each month represent so that's another idea and the the months are not just you know one month following another month I mean that happens that's a physical that's a practical dimension but each month has its own dimensions got its own concept that the month is made up of it's got its own power it's got its own energy to it so for example the month of Tishrei is the month of interestingly enough both din judgment and similar from from saccade and which means that the month itself is a month as comprised of the energy of din and simcoe the the month of me somewhere Pesach is is a month of Guru it's got the redemption inside of it it's a month which the essence of the month is the concept of redemption that's one of the reasons why the gomorrah says that we were redeemed in New Sun and we will be redeemed in the future in this Sun I don't think it means it will be redeemed necessarily in the month of nice and we can be redeemed today but i think what it's coming to teachers is what that that that energy of redemption is something which is particular to the month of your son we're now moved into the month of what's called Marrakech one what is Marrakech run so the month that we're in right now cash fun is a very interesting month you know why why is it interesting because it's got a holidays in it we've got holidays all over the place right so frightened Tishrei which we've just been through I mean the whole the whole month is full of holidays right but we've got cash fun has nothing kiss slave has konoka Tishrei at kids david has the end of can occur inside of it and then you've got fat which is the month of the new year of the trees and then you've got a dar which is a month of Purim and then you've got nice on which is a month of pace off and then you've got er which is a month pesach shany the second base of and then you've got seven which is a month of chores then you have tunnels which also doesn't have a holiday inside of it and then you have of which has got two very important days inside of it one of them course is Tish above the ninth above which emits a shame when the mushaf comes will turn into a yonder and the other one is a fifteenth of of which is considered to be a very very joyous day is for service t'shuvah tones' on so why should it's not that Thomas doesn't really have anything it does but we've gotta wait until the sheriff comes in order you know the same build up that we have between that those three weeks between the seventeenth of town was in the ninth of of that bring us from you know being being in a state of mourning to a state of great morning amid such show me the michelle comes as you come very very soon right but when the mushaf comes that will all turn into a time of joy will get its going to build us up that those three weeks will build us up into the most incredible time of joy and similar and that's something to look forward to Marrakech from one of the reasons why cash fund is called Marrakech water what does Mara mean bitter right Mara means bit about means mr. as well but mar mar means bitter right to one of the reasons that's given why it's called Marrakech van is because there's nothing in it it's got its got no holidays in it so it's a bitter month so interesting so wise you're not called Mara Thomas I don't know maybe maybe because it's got the potential inside of it when the Michelle comes to become a time of joy so we don't call it ma mark hedge fund when the Michelle comes we're gonna we're still gonna have a month without any festivals in it however there's another there's another reason which is given them but the concept of Mar is a concept of rain drops of rain Mukesh fun is the month where that early rains that's when they're supposed to fall it's our share right that's a broker for sure it's not necessarily a bad thing some people say that it's got that exact dimension of bitterness some people said that I mention of referring to the rain if you read in the in the second paragraph of the Sh'ma we talked about the early rains and the latter range right and that's how the crops are supposed to grow and that's what's going to bring us bounty and plenty and in Viet a shame this mark this year will be a you know truly very wet and bountiful winter in Viet RM and the rains will begin to the rain should begin to fall sometime during the month of session lachemann is really be added to the addition for between massive are Walker muy de Guerre sure we started saying now and if it's a shame in a week's time we're gonna start adding in the st. Alomar to leave rocker which is it's interesting much of a homologation no over here in Israel it's on ziying the cash fun this is because he art the artscroll sitter is built for hook so we're going to starve it's a chef in a week's time we're going to start saying on design the catch from the seventh of cash fun we're going to start saying the same telemarketer Rafa it's interesting what's the difference between the two sides have a quick look even though it's not it's not related but it's it's all related right okay so Marshall Armada Geshe means that God brings the winds and he brings a rain right and we start we start adding that in from the end of saqqaq we start adding it into the Amidah brunch okay it brings the window rough serene Marshall Morrison brings brings the wind and drops arraign excuse me why do the additions for the for the pee dance over there how come why are the additions appear at different time oh here very good right here so keep keep an eye on that for a minute I explain what's going on when we say mashallah homologation right when we make that change over on Sekot from saying that God gives us due to God brings that it brings the wind and drops the rain right we are we are not we're not asking for rain at that point we're just making a statement of fact which means when you read through the army dad at the beginning the first opening bruh hot all we're doing really is defining who God is right why are we why are we doing this why are we turning to God why are we praying to God we're defining you God is a God God of Abraham he revives the dead you know all of the orders incredible dimensions that we need to know that this is a person that we're turning to to ask for our request so when we say he brings a wind and drops a rain of mashable homologation we're not asking for anything we're just making a statement of fact that's what God does later on in the Amidah the brother of baraka but Boris Elena which is a brother of paranoia that we should have a livelihood like that we should be blessed with material wealth over there we say the same tala motto lyraka we ask God to give us rain that's a request so the gamarra wants to know like the Camorra really asks a very a very important question Gomorrah says why do we start saying much of a homologation at sucat and then we wait two weeks until we start saying the words the same telemarketer rachal which is asking for rain the answer said sycamore like this because all the jews came to Jerusalem for Sekot drag its one of the one of the foot foot sore one of the pilgrim festivals everyone was in Jerusalem for Sekot it took a minimum of took a maximum of two weeks for the Jews to get beyond the Euphrates River nah Pratt after that what was the problem the minute it started raining and it started raining heavily that it would come very difficult to get across the river first of all the river blanks would flood everything will become muddy so the rabbi's instituted that we wait two weeks to allow all the people that have come to Jerusalem to be able to the ones that the furthest to travel how to travel over the Euphrates River to get back home again then they should be able to get beyond the Euphrates before they start reciting the bracha asking for rain yeah it's a very beautiful idea in frigid big depreciable origin oh here hold on it's just hold on a second we'll get to that as well right so far so good like that's why we're going to wait now it's getting a week's time it's going to be two weeks after saccade right Zion because you're under seventh of cash fun that's when we're going to start saying the extra part of it in the brothel brothel anal of the same talent want to live rocket so far so good a moisture is concerned about what's going on outside of Israel outside of Israel they start reciting the same telemarketer Rockets I didn't either they wait a long time until the fourth of the fifth of December first of all for anybody's paying attention right this is the only time in the Jewish year that we use a non-jewish date yeah it goes according to the 4th or the fifth of December outside of Israel she wondered um Rosh Hashanah was the first of t-shirt yeah so one was a time frame of her a little from Rosh Hashanah was what the wall rosh hashanah LOL it is the month that comes before rosh hashanah russia genres in the month of Tishrei LOL is a month that precedes it well what's the question because i felt like our wool was kind of short before rosh hashanah came like I felt like it went by kind of quick no that's that it did I mean LLL was the foot it was a full amount of days it's just that because you were coming to this class you know every day it just blew past right I guess I was confused because we were so reading that our dell power graph of David oh we keep going i try to keep going until the end of the cord yeah yeah it's a whole it's a hold of that all plus almost a whole of tissue as well I tried it's a little bit confusing cuz you think that it's that you think it's being read in order to get ready for rosh hashanah and then you carry on reading it afterwards yeah whatever yeah but ok now we're back to normal well normal I mean in Judaism normals a relative a relative turtle so why outside of Israel why are we bringing in the fourth of the fifth of December why are we going according to a secular date and why is it on the fourth of the fifth December why isn't it just on one of them but what's the difference so the answer is like this it's very interesting the there is something called cool fat tishrei that the year is split up into four sections like the four seasons I think you have egg equinoxes right the two equinoxes and to solstice something like I know that is it work but the secular that the solar year is filled up into four sections as well which is where the four seasons come from again for you know for people who are living in agricultural community the four seasons are far more important for example in the weeks are now you know what you've got know what season you you've got to know what you're planting you've got note you've got to know what needs to be done but all of these things are far far more important than you know whether what not what number week you're in at any one given time in Judaism as well I old old Jewish communities over here in Israel everything was agricultural and there are also four sections of the year and with cool factor Thierry is the cool for this period that we're in right now which I guess corresponds give or take corresponds to the concept of what we call autumn and what everyone else seems call fall I don't know why but apparently that's apparently that it's felt falln not f 00 l there's no there's no prayer per se but there is a tradition that fathers pass over to their children but above the clouds somewhere there is this great big ball called the Sun and you know it it's a tradition I know you were going to say a cup of tea is also the tradition well I cup of tea is something with a little bit a little bit more practical dimension to it in England at least anish you can see it in all events a tradition yeah yeah we'll see we'll see we'll see why when you when you recite the prayer for the rain even even in England right you are reciting the prayer really your qivana your intent needs to be four here in Israel so we'll see a fascinating thing over here right outside of Israel you start reciting that extra prayer for rain on the fourth of the fifth of December because it is 60 days after the equinox alright what's called in Hebrew to cool fat tissue the period of tishri that 60-day that that's 60 days at which point the winter has to begin in all in all countries in the northern hemisphere the winter needs to have begun by then and that's when we start reciting the blessing for the rain here in Israel we start reciting in much earlier because we need rain much earlier on why is it the fourth of the fifth in December because it depends on whether it's a leap year or not that's going to have a it's going to make a difference to the 60th day of the equinox right because the whole year has got an extra day inside of it like a Gregorian Lee yeah yeah which means that up what will happen is I this under normal circumstances it's not a Gregorian leap year so we'll said on the 4th December they'll start saying it in England right or outside of outside of Israel otherwise it will be on the 5th because an extra day is being added in to the year however what is fascinating about all this i'm sorry this is a little bit confusing but I find it fascinating and therefore I insist that you listen to it it's my class so I do find what's fascinating right yeah the what's fascinating about this whole business is that up until not so very long ago we're going back maybe if you know several hundred years each community would decide when they wanted to start reciting the extra prayer for rain outside of Israel from Zion cash length from the time that they start in Israel until the fourth or the fifth i do Sander now we've got up here we've got a period where we're we're holding now to its now then a week's time it's going to be the twentieth of October which means we've got like six weeks it's like a six week period within which communities would start reciting the prayer according to their own needs you're here and which means that if you lived in a very wet area so you would you would push off reciting the blessing until fourth of the fifth of December if you lived in a dry area around the moon around around Israel somewhere you would probably start reciting it straight away other areas in France for example where sometimes it's wetter and sometimes it's drier each year they would decide when they were going to start reciting the prayer until only about a hundred and eighty years ago everything became uniform and here in Israel they start reciting from two weeks after Sekot and outside of Israel everyone starts reciting on the fourth of the fifth in December there are supposed to have in mind as you see the peerage yeah which means a prayer at the prayer is its got like a it's got a duality to it you're praying for yourself and you're praying for Israel as well where is the real repercussion over here the rule repercussion over here is a zombie that lives in the southern hemisphere and in the southern hemisphere when we hit the winter it's their summer so what are they going to do they're going to pray for rain there are 1 rain in there some it's not good to have the rain in the summer they need the rain in the winter so it's a whole formulas inside of the inside of the you know how lock inside of the authorities of various authorities about when they should begin reciting the prayer for rain ultimately imprint you know the jewish communities in Australia and in New Zealand start reciting the prayer for the rain on the fourth and the fifth of December just like everybody else and their calves owner is only their intent is only for the Land of Israel right because the land of israel needs to rain desperately thank you no remote has been coming for years now that's the first time he's ever said that so where can we open the way to learn in Israel because really really it comes down to the idea of you know in agricultural societies it's very difficult for people to pray for rain when they don't need it that's why the fourth and the fifth of December it really that's already the wintertime so you do you need the rain anyway wherever you are in the northern hemisphere you're going to need the rain at that point it's going to make it easier for everyone to be able to pray with the correct qivana it's true that in the southern hemisphere it's a rather strata been there but I would imagine is a rather strange feeling to be reciting the prayer for rain in the middle of the summer outside Israel why would we ask the range around the sender time because the idea again it's the idea the 60th day of the equinox is considered to be a concert when it comes to the winter that's considered to be a very important moment agriculturally but not typically dry telling y'all think I'm just coming from a bridge well okay it does really does depend where you're coming from okay you know but it get it you take you take Europe in general yeah so going down into Spain and France yeah southern parts of France and certainly in Spain at that point that's that's when the winter is going to start beginning is English England of course is blessed with an abundance of rain even though they seem to always suffer from droughts in the summer there's not enough water and water rationing and people cannot wash their cars or wash themselves or whatever you know what just before we finish that there is there is a year as a custom by the women that they take upon themselves it's like it's like a it's like a minor festival and they're you know they're careful you know some we're going to careful not to all kinds of things that they wanted they don't do washing and they don't just sewing and that actually comes down interesting enough that relates back to the sin of the golden calf when the sin of the golden carp the women did not sin only the men sinned and as a as a reward God gave them this the concept of rosh chodesh being like a like a festival for them for the women that they should be able to you know have a little a little bit of a rest and to enjoy and I guessed again to rejuvenate a little bit renew themselves dude was the answer earlier with with Jane 700 times they'd either see it on the first day and that's it then she'll see it on the second day and they really didn't beat renounce it because everyone knew it was going to be the second day there's that which one corresponds to one day which corresponds to two days now neither of them actually in the olden days when the temple was extent in the witnesses were coming there weren't one or two days worth of rosh chodesh where the witnesses came they would they were proclaimed rosh chodesh and that day would become was close it's only afterwards that and when they were trying to trying to sort out trying to sort out the calendar without the witnesses and without the sightings of the new moon then at that point it was created in the way that it was created which one is it was an interesting thing in the temple times you know you can you could be in the temple in the afternoon all the time they would announcements or a foolish it had to be done with enough time to be able to offer up the sacrifices that need to be open up on that day but it was something which was it wasn't it wasn't something that was you know they might have known more or less when it's going to be but they wouldn't have bailed it's going to be exactly on that day because everything is dependent on the witnesses witnesses coming and describing the move that they saw him where they saw it and then at that point then they would say that's it it's a new moon in too much tarnish leaving with their what sells to see ya interestingly enough you know there's a custom you say a psalm of the day every day right every day is a different song according to the Vilna Gaon according to the garage there are certain songs that are recited every when there's yomtov we don't recite the regular one we recite something else however it's shabbos normally override so when for example it's shabbat shalom I'd the psalm of the day is a sum of the day for Shabbat not but not for whatever work not for the special David's Shabbat the exception to the rule is recited the Gomorrah in sukkah says that the reason why we recite baroque enough sheet which is a special psalm of the day for rush photo/john Shabbat as well is to publicize the fact that in charge fine dish because it wasn't always known you did load sure yeah read that last of us baraki now she you might have read it in the afternoon here we did after minica because once you fell once you begin there once you begin the winter we stop saying Pirkei Avot and then they start saying barking Archie instead it is a little bit shorter but barking now she's also the psalm of the day for rosh chodesh good ok we're gonna call it a day again so that means we've done two days today I guess I'm off the hook for tomorrow I mean no you