Questions tagged [maseches-rosh-hashana]
Tractate dealing with laws of the begining of the Year, the shofar and sanctifying the Month through the new moon.
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Gold and Shofaros
The Mishna in Rosh Hashana 26a states that according to the Tanna Kama, a shofar may not be made of a cow's horn.
In the Gemara, Ulla states that one reason for this is that "the accuser cannot ...
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Visiting one’s rebbe virtually for a festival
According to this answer Jews can make up their obligation to visit their rebbe on Yom tov found in Masechet Rosh Hashanah by visiting during Chol Hamoed of the holiday if they missed the ...
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Shouldn't Rosh Chodesh Iyar be a sad day?
The Gemara in Rosh Hashana 10b-11a says
בְּנִיסָן נִגְאֲלוּ בְּנִיסָן עֲתִידִין לִיגָּאֵל
Shouldn't that mean that when Rosh Chodesh Iyar comes and we, unfortunately, have not been redeemed, that ...
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What does this from Rosh Hashanah 17a mean?
In Rosh Hashanah 17a it says
Gehenna will terminate, but they still will not terminate, as it is
stated: “And their form shall wear away the netherworld, so that there
be no dwelling for Him” (Psalms ...
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how could they see the fire signals so far away?
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Measuring Moon's elevation in units of length
Rosh Hashanah 24a:
The Sages taught in a baraita: If one witness says that he saw the moon two plow handles high above the horizon, and the other one says it was three plow handles high, their ...
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Why would a malicious declaration of Rosh Hachodesh be legal (R"H 25a)?
R' Akiva famously interpreted a verse to legalize malicious rulings of Kiddush Hachodesh:
"אתם אפילו שוגגין אתם אפילו מזידין אתם אפילו מוטעין:"
"[You are authorized to determine the ...
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Why were angels' names brought back?
Related.
A well-known gemara in the Yerushalmi (Rosh Hashanah 6a) says:
"רשב"ל אמר אף שמות המלאכים עלו בידן מבבל. בראשונה (ישעיהו ו׳:ו׳) ויעף אלי אחד מן השרפים (שם) שרפים עומדים ממעל לו ...
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Where in the rabbinic writings are there examples of the word "Elul" that mean or imply "harvest" and/or "search"?
Where in the rabbinic writings are there examples of the word "Elul" that mean or imply "harvest" and/or "search"?
Which word in Aramaic means "search" that ...
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Does birchat hachodesh need three people?
Does birchat hachodesh need three (or four) people preferably as a commemoration to Beth Din?
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Who authored the three hagahos in Rosh HaShanah?
In Rosh HaShanah 11b, at the top of the page in the standard Vilna style printings, is a marginal gloss introduced with the word הג״ה. There is another, introduced with the same word, on the right-...
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How is the date of Yitzchak's birth related to the dispute between R' Eliezer and R' Yehoshua?
There's a famous dispute between R' Eliezer and R' Yehoshua when the world was created: Tishrei or Nissan. Their dispute is recorded in Rosh Hashanah 10b - 11a:
תניא רבי אליעזר אומר בתשרי נברא העולם ...
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Is teshuva ever ineffective?
Rosh Hashana 17b quotes a Baraita
[...] If one repents in the meantime, between Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur, he is forgiven; if he does not repent in the meantime, then even if he later brings as ...
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Hashem in a Tallit
The Gemara in Rosh Hashanah 17b says:
ויעבור ה' על פניו ויקרא א"ר יוחנן אלמלא מקרא כתוב אי אפשר לאומרו מלמד
שנתעטף הקב"ה כשליח צבור והראה לו למשה סדר תפלה אמר לו כל זמן שישראל
חוטאין יעשו לפני ...
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Has there been any scientific study that agrees with Talmud Rosh Hashanna 20b's time difference?
I'm extracting from this M.Y. question:
In Talmud Bavli Rosh Hashanna 20b, R' Zeira quotes R' Nachman as
saying:
כ"ד שעי מכסי סיהרא לדידן שית מעתיקא ותמני סרי מחדתא לדידהו שית מחדתא
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What message is the "witness" on Rosh Hashanah 22b trying to convey?
The gemara in Rosh Hashanah 22b quotes a beraisa which tells the story of the בייתוסים trying to trick the chachamim into establishing the new month on the wrong date:
בראשונה היו מקבלין עדות החדש ...
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According to those who argue on R’ Yehudah, why do we bring the Shtei HaLechem on Shavuos?
Rosh Hashanah 16a quotes the following teaching:
א"ר יהודה משום ר"ע ... מפני מה אמרה תורה הביאו שתי הלחם בעצרת מפני שעצרת זמן פירות האילן הוא אמר הקב"ה הביאו לפני שתי הלחם בעצרת כדי שיתברכו לכם ...
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Chronological order of stories involving Rabban Gamliel
There’s several stories (that I know of) which deal with Rabban Gamliel acting in a less-than-ideal way in regard to his contemporaries:
Rosh HaShanah 25a-b, where Rabban Gamliel insisted that R’ ...
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Is there an opinion that plowing and harvesting on Shabbos are not punishable by Kareis and Skilah? If not, why?
Shabbos 70a records a dispute between R' Nassan and R' Yosi on how to interpret the seemingly extra passuk (Shemos 35:3):
לֹא־תְבַעֲר֣וּ אֵ֔שׁ בְּכֹ֖ל מֹשְׁבֹֽתֵיכֶ֑ם בְּי֖וֹם הַשַּׁבָּֽת׃
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Why didn't they send messengers for Rosh Chodesh Shevat?
The mishnah in Rosh Hashana 1:3 lists the months when they would send messengers to notify people which day Rosh Chodesh was:
Nisan because of Pesach
Av because of Tisha Be'av
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Is Mashiach going to come in Nissan/Tishrei, or can he come at any time?
The Gemara in Rosh HaShanah 10b-11a says:
תניא רבי אליעזר אומר בתשרי נברא העולם בתשרי נולדו אבות בתשרי מתו אבות בפסח נולד יצחק בראש השנה נפקדה שרה רחל וחנה בראש השנה יצא יוסף מבית האסורין בר"ה בטלה ...
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How/best places to find time to think/reflect during RH/YK davening?
This question is about how to make the yamim noraim services profound cognitive experiences when there is barely time to say the words in the machzor and only rarely time to reflect on the words (e.g.,...
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Proof text in Rosh Hashanah for month of mating season
The Gemara in Rosh Hashanah on 11a says:
ר' יהושע אומר מנין שבניסן נברא העולם שנא' (בראשית א, יב) ותוצא הארץ
דשא עשב מזריע זרע ועץ עושה פרי איזהו חדש שהארץ מליאה דשאים ואילן מוציא
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Why is Rosh Chodesh Nisan for kings - not Rosh Hashana?
Why is the Rosh Hashana for kings not the same Rosh Hashana of the year when we coronate the King of Kings? See Rosh Hashana (1:1)
בְּאֶחָד בְּנִיסָן רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה לַמְּלָכִים וְלָרְגָלִים. ...
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Why do we say the 13 Middos so often?
The Gemara in Rosh HaShanah 17b states that HaShem told Moshe Rabbeinu that whenever the Jews sin, they should recite the 13 Middos and they will be forgiven.
Why do we say the 13 Middos so often ...
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Did Rabbi Akiva Go To Africa?
The Gemara in Rosh Hashana 26a says:
ואמר רבי עקיבא כשהלכתי לאפריקי...
Rabbi Akiva said: when I went to Afriki
Is this referring to the continent of Africa?
Was Africa in this time period ...
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Asterisk and star shape?
The Talmud (RH 24b; brought also in Sh.Ar. YD 141, 7) says it is forbidden to make a shape of sun, moon or stars.
לא תעשון כדמות שמשיי המשמשין לפני כגון חמה לבנה כוכבים ומזלות
So, is it permitted ...
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What prompted the absent-Sanhedrin-head decree in Rosh Hashana 4:4?
R' Yochanan ben Zakai, in leading the Jewish people during and immediately after the Destruction of the Second Temple, issued many decrees aimed at responding to the new post-Temple reality and ...
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Cutting the omer on Shabbos vs. building the Mishkan
Rashi to Shemos 32:21 quotes Rosh Hashanah 9a in which some Tannaim learn that the implication of specifying plowing and harvesting is to indicate that the only prohibition on Shabbos of plowing and ...
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How many women were remembered on Rosh Hashanah?
According to the talmud, Rosh Hashanah 10b,
On Rosh Hashanah, Sarah, Rachel and Chanah were designated to give birth, Yosef was released from prison, and the slavery in Egypt ceased.
from here.
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Why does the fast of Tish'a B'Av begin before nightfall?
Shulchan Aruch O.C. 553:2 states that eating on Erev Tisha B'av must end while it is still daylight.
In viewing the topic of tosefet Shabbat which is mentioned in Talmud Rosh Hashannah 9a, I ...
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Why Shavuos on Sunday
Rashi on Rosh Hashana 22 omud 2 says that the baytusim wanted the 1st day of sefirah and Shavuos to fall on Sunday because of the possuk which says ממחרת השבת which they interpret literally, that the ...
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How does Tehillim 33:15 imply all creatures pass before Him on Rosh HaShanah?
The Mishnah (Talmud Bavli, Masekhet Rosh HaShanah 16A; Original, English) states that "At New Year all creatures pass before Him like Bene'i Maron, as it says (Tehillim 33:15), ‘He that fashioneth the ...
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Why are there 4 citations from Ketuvim (Writings) instead of 3 in Shofarot?
Talmud Rosh Hashanah 32a says:
מתני' אין פוחתין מעשרה מלכיות מעשרה זכרונות מעשרה שופרות
My translation:
We do not lessen (saying) 10 verses in each of Malchuyot, Zichront and Shofarot (The middle ...
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Significance of 13 Attributes of Mercy in Prayer
According to the Gemara Rosh Hashana (17b) the recitation of the 13 attributes of God leads to forgiveness:
א"ר יוחנן אלמלא מקרא כתוב אי אפשר לאומרו מלמד שנתעטף הקב"ה כשליח צבור והראה לו למשה סדר ...
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Is the distance for observing 2 days of Yom Tov today, the same distance as when this halacha was first instituted?
My understanding is that the reason for observing the 2nd Day of Yom Tov was that messengers were sent from the Sanhedrin to proclaim the day that Rosh Hodesh began, and they could reach only a ...
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What is the point of praying if your fate is already decided on Rosh Hashana?
It says in Mesechta Rosh Hashana
"On the New Year, [first of Tishrei] all who have entered the earth
pass before Him, one by one, like young sheep, as it says: “He that
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What is the difference between חרמין וההקדשות
What is the difference between חרמין וההקדשות?
Since they are both making something the property of the Temple Treasury
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Is “al tikri” ever used for a midrash halacha?
In maseches Rosh Hashana 13a–b, the Gemara attempts to prove that certain crops count as having grown in the year in which they achieve one-third of their total growth:
מנלן כדתניא רבי יונתן בן יוסף ...
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I thought Gezeirah Shavah requires Mesorah
In Masecheth Rosh Hashanah (9b), the Gemara uses a Gezeirah Shavah from Tishrei, with the word שנה, to support the Mishnah's ruling that 'Orlah is counted from Tishrei. In response, however, the ...
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About what was Beit Shammai more lenient than Beit Hillel?
I have the impression that in general, when Beit Hillel and Beit Shammai disagreed, the former was more lenient than the other. But it's not always the case; the g'mara on Rosh Hashana 14b talks ...
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Why doesn't Rosh HaShanah precede Yoma in Daf Yomi? [duplicate]
In two sets of Sha"S Bavli that I own, and logically, Rosh HaShanah precedes Yoma. But it doesn't in the Daf Yomi cycle. Why not?
My first thought was that, perhaps, my sets deviate from the ...
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Baal T'acher today - based on Rosh Hashana 4
Rosh Hashana 4a & Rosh Hashana 4b mentions a whole list of items that one does the sin of Baal T'acher. There is a dispute as to when this prohibition takes effect, ranging from the first festival ...
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Eternal Gehinom
The talmud in Rosh Hashana 17a lists some sins which warrant eternal gehinom.
Is this to be taken literally? Or perhaps it means a very long time or until the end of this world?
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