Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site aecom.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!aecom!alex From: alex@aecom.UUCP (Alex S. Fuss) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: birchat hachodesh Message-ID: <868@aecom.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Oct-84 18:43:01 EDT Article-I.D.: aecom.868 Posted: Tue Oct 9 18:43:01 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 10-Oct-84 06:05:44 EDT References: <1521@ucla-cs.ARPA> Organization: Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., NY Lines: 14 > Does anybody know why we do not say birchat ha-chodesh the shabat before > Rosh Hashannah???? This question just ocurred to me, and I cannot find > anybody who discusses this. So as not to alert the Satan to prosecute us, whatever that means. Also, the verse Ti'ku bahodesh shofar b'kese l'yom hagenu, with a play on the word kese, says to blow the shofar at the HIDDEN holiday, i.e., Rosh Hashana. I don't, off hand, know where the verse is found. -- from the philosophical outlook of: Alex S. Fuss {philabs, esquire, cucard, ihnp4}!aecom!alex