Another Idea for Expecting the Geula At All Times
Besides preparing for the Korban Pesah, the Mashiach is Coming blog reports:
An article by Yehuda Marks in this week's Hamodia discusses the mitzvah of Kiddush Hachodesh - sanctifying the new month.
He writes that "Until 1700 years ago, the beis din sanctified every Rosh Chodesh on the basis of evidence supplied by two witnesses who saw the new moon."
Furthermore, the author writes that this practice will be adopted at the time of the coming of Mashiach, when the Sanhedrin is once again established.
It is to this end that the Israeli New Moon Society has been formed to educate its members on how to spot the new moon.
The initiator of the project, as well as the Society members, can respond in the affirmative when they are asked, "Tzipita liYeshuah? — Did you hope for salvation?"
May we merit seeing a return to the sanctification of the new month based upon the testimony of two witnesses bimhera beyamenu.
posted by yaak @ 3/12/2010 10:49:00 AM
4 comments
4 Comments:
you don't think that they are a bunch of lunatics?
;)
kt,
josh
No. You do?
from wikipedia: The word lunatic is borrowed from the Latin "lunacus", in turns stemming from "luna" (moon), which denotes the traditional link made in folklore between madness and the phases of the moon.
thus, ;)
Sorry, my brain is working slow today.
Cute.
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