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With sundown tonight we enter Rosh Hodesh Elul, the Jewish festival celebrating the arrival of the penitential month.
Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb: Tar Sands And The Jewish Month Of Change Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb 2011
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With sundown tonight we enter Rosh Hodesh Elul, the Jewish festival celebrating the arrival of the penitential month.
Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb: Tar Sands And The Jewish Month Of Change Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb 2011
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With sundown tonight we enter Rosh Hodesh Elul, the Jewish festival celebrating the arrival of the penitential month.
Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb: Tar Sands And The Jewish Month Of Change Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb 2011
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With sundown tonight we enter Rosh Hodesh Elul, the Jewish festival celebrating the arrival of the penitential month.
Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb: Tar Sands And The Jewish Month Of Change Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb 2011
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In the years that I directed the Feminist Center, I had the honor to accompany scores of women on their Jewish journeys through study, participating in our monthly Rosh Hodesh (new moon) celebrations, planning and executing life cycle celebrations, which often included a visit to the mikveh (ritual bath), and more.
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The Shulhan Arukh rules that women are forbidden to fast on Rosh Hodesh (Orah Hayyim 418: 1) and it is a mitzvah for them to feast (Orah Hayyim 419: 1).
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The midrash maintains that because of this tradition women were more meticulous in celebrating Rosh Hodesh and even abstained from work on that day.
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On Rosh Hodesh Adar 1893, the school opened with the declared intention of teaching Hebrew to the girls of Jaffa, the mothers of the next generation, so that they might speak the language with their children and thus raise a new Hebrew generation in Erez Israel.
Roza Shoshana Joffe. 2009
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They were married on April 19, 1920 (Rosh Hodesh Iyyar 5680) in Jerusalem.
Rahel Katznelson. 2009
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On every Rosh Hodesh (the first day of the month in the Jewish calendar) they would gather by the Western Wall or at other holy sites to hear prayers which included a description of the Day of Judgment.
Old Yishuv: Palestine at the End of the Ottoman Period. 2009
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