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Jewish Holidays

Rosh Chodesh

New Month

“A Jewish month can be short or long, 29 or 30 days. The new month (Rosh Chodesh) used to begin when eye-witnesses came to the Beit Din to report that they had seen the New Moon appear in the sky.” — Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Videos on Rosh Chodesh

Ways of Counting Time: The Omer Controversy

Rabbi Sacks delivered this shiur to over 500 yeshiva and seminary students in Jerusalem on Wednesday 18th May 2016. The...

Ask Rabbi Sacks Episodes

Questions Answered - Episode One

We invited the world to send Rabbi Sacks videos where they asked him their burning questions, in time for Rosh...

Read about Rosh Chodesh

Essays and writings from Rabbi Sacks' extensive body of work.

From the Archives

ARTICLES, REFLECTIONS

A Double Celebration

The festival of Shavuot is a mystery wrapped in an enigma. Here is how Shavuot is described and defined in...

From Covenant & Conversation

The series of weekly commentary essays on the Torah by Rabbi Sacks

BO • 5786

Freedom’s Defence

The Summary “And you shall explain to your child on that day, ‘It is because of what the Lord did...

TOLDOT • 5785

The Tragedy of Good Intentions

The Summary This is an abridged version of the essay The Tragedy of Good Intentions written by Rabbi Sacks in...

NOACH • 5785

Individual and Collective Responsibility

The Summary This is an abridged version of the essay written by Rabbi Sacks in 2011, available here. The Parsha...

EMOR • 5771, 5777, 5784

The Duality of Jewish Time

Alongside the holiness of place and person is the holiness of time, something parshat Emor charts in its deceptively simple...