Jewish%20thought for Rosh Hashanah 39:2

איכא דאמרי א"ר נחמן אף אנן נמי תנינא על שני חדשים מחללין את השבת על ניסן ועל תשרי אי אמרת בשלמא לעולם חסר משום הכי מחללינן דמצוה לקדש על הראייה

According to another version, R'Nahman said: We also have learnt: 'For the fixing of two New Moons the Sabbath may be profaned, for those of Nisan and of Tishri'. Now if you say that the Adar which precedes Nisan is always defective, there is no difficulty; the reason why Sabbath may be profaned is because it is a religious duty to sanctify [the New Moon] on the strength of actual ob servation.

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