Commentary for Rosh Hashanah 49:9

רבי חייא חזייא לסיהרא דהוה קאי בצפרא דעשרים ותשעה שקל קלא פתק ביה אמר לאורתא בעינן לקדושי בך ואת קיימת הכא זיל איכסי א"ל רבי לר' חייא זיל לעין טב וקדשיה לירחא ושלח לי סימנא דוד מלך ישראל חי וקים

R'Hiyya once saw the [old] moon in the heavens on the morning of the twenty-ninth day.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which was a sign that the new moon would not appear for at least twenty-four hours.');">¹⁸</span> He took a clod of earth and threw it at it, saying, Tonight we want to sanctify you,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So that the Day of Atonement should not be on Sunday.');">¹⁹</span> and are you still here! Go and hide yourself.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [Before nightfall, so that there should be no appearance of the old moon after the closing of the twenty-ninth day, which would prevent the thirtieth day from being proclaimed New Moon (Rashi) ; v. supra p. 85, n. 5]. khz');">²⁰</span>

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