Elul – Why is Rosh Hashanah at the new moon? Speaker: Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld zal.
תִּקְע֣וּ בַחֹ֣דֶשׁ שׁוֹפָ֑ר בַּ֜כֶּ֗סֶה לְי֣וֹם חַגֵּֽנוּ – “Sound the shofar on the New Moon, on the appointed time for the day of our festival” (Tehillim 81:4).
Astronomical calculations of the lunar calendar.
Excerpt from Ein Yaakov – Lesson 028b.
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