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First Month of your year?
There are several new years. (What!?) There is a new year for the world, a new year for the Jewish people, a new year for the trees, etc.
Nissan is the first month because it's the new year for the ...
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Why is Succos in Tishrei and not in Nissan - less famous answers
There is an idea expressed in many places that Succos occurs in Tishrei as it marks a continuation from the Yomim Noraim. Whereas the High Holy Days mark a period of Teshuva mei'yirah (repentance out ...
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Haftarat Shabbat HaGadol
The Haftara for Tzav (a portion from the Babylonian annual Torah cyle) is from Jeremiah 7 (mentioned in Bavli Megillah 23b). The Haftara for the Israeli triennial cycle section that begins near the ...
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What exactly do we celebrate on Purim - the 14th of Adar?
While it is true that Pharoah later regretted letting the Hebrews leave on the 15th of Nissan, this was indeed the day that the exile of Egypt ended, and that seems to be what the seder night ...
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What exactly do we celebrate on Purim - the 14th of Adar?
As I explain in my answer the Jews were still scheduled to be murdered (without any penalty) on 13 Adar. Thus, the final redemption did not occur until after the fighting was over, Thus we celebrate ...
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What will the haftarah reading for Shabbat HaChodesh 5781 be?
Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 685:4:
On the fifth Sabbath, which is the twenty-ninth of Adar, we take out two [Torah] scrolls — in one [the Reader] reads the weekly portion, and in the second he reads &...
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What will the haftarah reading for Shabbat HaChodesh 5781 be?
In the Mishna Bruah Orach Chaim Simen 685 Seif Katan 13 says that you read the Haftorah for Parshas HaChodash and not for Rosh Chodash. Since you always read the haftorah that is connected to the last ...
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Time to say Vsein Tal Umatar
Thanks to Joel K for this link
Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Aurbach Zatzal answers that when the people come for Sucos they are wearing summer clothing and can't handle the rain, and therefore we delay until 7 ...
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Why did Nisan change to the beginning of months after the exodus
I think you have it backwards. Passover occurred on the fourteenth day of the first month, Nisan, the first month of the year. However, when the Jews were exiled to Babylon in 586 BCE, they discovered ...
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Should Jews make Birkat Ha’ilonot on hydroponic fruit trees
According to Machon Hatorah VeHaAretz the חיי אדם considered hydroponic growth as not being "earth based" and said the Bracha on their produce is Shehakol.
Some later Poskim do consider them ...
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THE NEW YEAR: Rosh hashanah
Ramban on Exodus 12:2 states:
Now the purport of the expression, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months, is that Israel is to count this as the first of the months, and from it they are ...
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Visiting a cemetery in Nissan
Here are the opinions:
Not allowed on Chodesh Nissan: Kav Hayashar 88, Nitei Gavriel page 608 (if Yortzeit then allowed), Shu”t Melamed Lohil Chelek 2 Yoreah Deah Siman 145 (if he has a yahrzeit he ...
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Is "Reishit Ketzir" a holiday, half-holiday, regular day, or else?
When I look at the translations of Lev 23 (10) I get no impression that there is a day referred to as Reishis Ketzir.
See Chabad
Speak to the children of Israel and say to them: When you come to ...
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What is the relation between the month Nisan and the spring equinox?
In the Babylonian calendar, which Jews used in the late pre exilic, exilic, and early post exilic periods, the 1st of Nisannu always fell after what we would consider to be the equinox (though not ...
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What date was the crossing of the Red Sea?
This site has it as 21 Nissan
http://www.torahtots.com/timecapsule/thismonth/nisan.htm
This site discusses whether it was 7 or 8 days from the Exodus (in Nissan)
http://astrotorah.weeklyshtikle.com/...
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Two cycles of moadim
I am not sure if these are the two cycles to which you refer, but Rav Aharon Feldman shared a beautiful thought about the two cycles
1) Pesach, Shavuos, and Sukkos.
2) Rosh Hashona, Yom Kippur, ...
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