Commentary for Rosh Hashanah 35:17

<big><strong>גמ׳</strong></big> וליפקו נמי אתמוז וטבת

But we see that this is not so! No; what it means is this: 'The Creator sees<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This word being supplied from 'beholdeth' in v. 13.');">²¹</span> their hearts together and considereth all their doings'. <big><b>MISHNAH: </b></big>THERE ARE SIX NEW MOONS TO REPORT WHICH<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., to report whether the Beth din in Jerusalem have made the New Moon on the thirtieth or the thirty-first day after the preceding New Moon. Lit., 'for six months'.');">²²</span> MESSENGERS GO FORTH [FROM JERUSALEM<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As soon as the New Moon has been declared, on the twenty-ninth or the thirtieth day as the case may be.');">²³</span> TO THE DIASPORA]. [THE NEW MOON] OF NISAN ON ACCOUNT OF PASSOVER,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So that before Passover arrives the Jews in the Diaspora will know which day is the fifteenth.');">²⁴</span> OF AB<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' There is no need for them to go on Sivan, because the date of Pentecost is known from the counting of the 'Omer.');">²⁵</span> ON ACCOUNT OF THE FAST,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The ninth of Ab.');">²⁶</span> OF ELUL ON ACCOUNT OF NEW YEAR,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Knowing the New Moon of Elul, the Jews of the Diaspora will fix New Year thirty days later, Elul usually having twenty-nine days, though there is still a risk that the Beth din may in any particular year declare Elul to have thirty.');">²⁷</span> OF TISHRI FOR THE ADJUSTMENT OF THE FESTIVALS,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Viz., the Day of Atonement and Tabernacles, about which they could not be any more sure than about New Year.');">²⁸</span> OF KISLEV ON ACCOUNT OF HANUKAH,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which commences on Kislev 25.');">²⁹</span> AND OF ADAR ON ACCOUNT OF PURIM.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Adar the 14th.');">³⁰</span> WHEN THE TEMPLE STOOD, THEY USED ALSO TO GO FORTH TO REPORT IYAR ON ACCOUNT OF THE LESSER PASSOVER.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Passover for the unclean, kept on the fourteenth of Iyar. V. Num. IX, 1-14.');">³¹</span> <big><b>GEMARA: </b></big>Why should they not also go forth to report Tammuz and Tebeth<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' On account of the fasts of the seventeenth of Tammuz and the tenth of Tebeth.');">³²</span>

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