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From: alex@aecom.UUCP (Alex S. Fuss)
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Subject: Re: birchat hachodesh
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Date: Tue, 9-Oct-84 18:43:01 EDT
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> 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.
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				       Alex S. Fuss
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