New ideals or ideologies are naturally enticing to human-kind because people get bored with what they have and want something new, fresh and vibrant. However, the Jew and the Torah have not changed since Mount Sinai, over 3, years ago.
In many ways, baruch Hashem, we are even more vibrant, as we take on the challenges that attempt to alter or defeat us. The renowned mechanechet Rebbetzin Sima Spetner once related how she was involved with a girl who was no longer observant. This girl told the rebbetzin how she hated Shabbos as a child, while another girl told the rebbetzin how she loved Shabbos and Yom Tov.
There was a feeling of excitement in the air. Pre-Pesach is a tense time, with all the effort and time needed to turn our homes into chametz-free zones. This is a challenging yet very opportune and powerful time. It is a time of vibrancy, a time to develop incredible vigor and excitement in observing the mitzvot.
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The celebration of al-Tahwid begins with special liturgy on the Sabbath closest to the day and on the day itself the community refrains from unnecessary labor similar to intermediate days of Jewish holidays. They also recite a Kiddush a prayer that sanctifies a day, recited over a cup of wine followed by a festive meal and the recitation of liturgical poetry.
One such poem presents a debate among the twelve months to determine which one will have primacy. In one stanza, for example, Nisan argues that the following month of Iyyar cannot be chosen since its zodiacal sign is Taurus, the same species as the golden calf that Israel made in the wilderness.
Other prayers more explicitly cast the day as the beginning of the new year. The celebration of the first of Nisan as the beginning of the new year is rooted both in Biblical and Talmudic sources. Exodus states that Nisan is the first month in the intercalation of the new year and the Mishnah in Tractate Rosh Hashanah describes the First of Nisan as one of the four beginnings of the Jewish New Year:.
There are four new years. On the first of Nisan is the new year for kings and for festivals. On the first of Elul is the new year for the tithe of cattle. On the first of Shevat is the new year for trees…. In an article on the Seder al-Tahwid liturgy, liturgical scholar Ezra Fleischer postulates that the Kiddush ceremony on the holiday was based on an earlier Mishanic-era institution. This declaration was performed with pomp and publicity in order to make it clear that the final word in the intercalation of the Jewish calendar belonged to the rabbis of Eretz Yisrael and no one else.
If the first of Nisan is such an important date to both the Bible and Talmud then, why is the day celebrated today only by this small Jewish community? To answer this question we must look to the Geonic period of jewish history, corresponding roughly to the second half of the first millennium. Over the past decade, historians increasingly see this period as one in which a number of variations of Judaism were vying for supremacy.
These included several schools of Jewish jurisprudence based in different geographic constituencies across the Mediterranean Diaspora. Two of the most prominent were the Babylonian Minhag Babhel, based in Baghdad and Palestinian Minhag Eretz Yisrael rites, as well as Karaite Jews who did not follow the Rabbis at all but formed their own, non rabbinic madhab or creed.
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