Why Cheshvan &
Kislev?
The
Tur (O.Ch. 428) writes ,”Tishrei is always a full month(30days)
and
Teves is always a missing (short) month (29days)
The
months alternate one month is full and the following is short.
The
months of Cheshvan & Kislev are exceptions. Some years both
months
are full.(砖谞讛 砖诇诪讛 ). Some years both months are short
(
讞住专讛 ) and some years one is full and the other is short (讻住讚专讛)“
The
reason for this is to equalize the months. A lunar cycle is
29
days+12hours+ 793 Chalokim (Aprox. ¾ hr.)
The
Levush explains why did Chazal pick Cheshvan & Kislev
and
not any other month when we do not
always alternate full
and short months .
He
explains,
“The
first opportunity we have to add or subtract from the month
is
on the month of Cheshvan.
We
can’t do it on Nissan & Iyar because the 50th day
of Sefirah
has
to be on the 6th of Sivan.
(by
adding or subtracting a day we will have it on the 5th or
the 7th )
From
Shavuos till Yom Kippur we need to have 3x 40 days.
to
commemorate the 3x 40 days from Moshe Rabeinu standing
on
the mountain (Shavuos) and bringing down the Luchos on
Yom
Kippur.
Chodesh Tishrei is the king of the Chodoshim
and the Month
with Yomim Tovim (讬专讞 讛讗转谞讬诐 ) we can’t make it a 讞住专 .
Therefore
the first opportune time is in the month of Cheshvan.
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