0530 - The Nusach of Birkas Hachodesh

00:01 In the Mihtaf Kloli that the Rebbe gave out dated Reshchedesh Marchesvan Tovshin Mem Gimel, which is printed in Lekutesichas Chelik Chof, page 555. The date is Reshchedesh Marchesvan He Tovshin Mem Gimel. And then there is a Ha'orah on the bottom, which says, Then the Rebbe adds, Which means, Reshchedesh Marchesvan, usually there are two days of Reshchedesh. And here the Rebbe, the date says Reshchedesh Marchesvan, so you don't know which date it is. So the Rebbe says, It's Kidai Tevimavar that when you say Birchas Ha'chedesh, and Shabbos and Varchim, when the Chazan says the Birchas Ha'chedesh, and there are two days of Reshchedesh. So how do you say it? You have to be mavara how you say it. In other words, the shaila is, the pashtis, that some people say, let's say Reshchedesh is Tuesday and Wednesday, they will say that Reshchedesh is Tuesday, ulamochrose on Wednesday. Yemashlishi ulamochrose be yemarvi. Some don't say it. Some just say that Reshchedesh is be yemashlishi u be yemarvi, without saying ulamochrose and the day after. So you have to be mavara from Chazonim who are Bala Mesera, who know how it used to be done before, to see how you do it. And then the Rebbe quotes a Maramokim from Evenezer. There it talks about a get. When you write a get and there are two days of Reshchedesh, what's the way to do it? The first day, if it's written on the first day of Reshchedesh, how you do it? And the second day of Reshchedesh, and

01:49 then the Ramos says better not to give a get on Reshchedesh, not to go into the shailas, etc., etc. So the Rebbe said it's tzorechim, we have to know how we do it here. If I remember correctly, when originally this letter came out for Reshchedesh Marchesvan, there was a different Ha'orah here. And right away the Rebbe changed it. And if I remember correctly, but I'm not sure, could be I'm wrong, that the Ha'orah said, after it said the word Reshchedesh Marchesvan, it said that the meaning is that when there are two days of Reshchedesh, you say Reshchedesh is the first day, ulamochrose the next day. I think that's what it said in the Ha'orah. But then right away, they gave out a different version of the same letter. They took all the other letters away and they gave it a new version and with this version. In other words, it seems to me, if I remember correctly, and again, maybe I'm mistaking, it was for sure a change in the Ha'orah. There was a different lashon. But I think the originally way it said in the Ha'orah was that if it's two days of Reshchedesh, you say the day, ulamochrose. Which seemingly we read the pshat why the Rebbe wrote Reshchedesh Marchesvan probably meant that the first day is the ikar. And that's what we do. We say the first day and also the next day. Maybe not, but that's what I think it said. And then the Rebbe changed it to the way it

02:57 says here now, the way it was written, printed in Lekutesichas, that you have to be mavara the meaning from the Chazonim Bala Mesera who know from tradition how it was. How do you say it? The peal, I don't remember how Rebbe Yechanan Gordon used to say it. He was the Gabay of 770 for many years. And he used to be the one to say Birchas Ha'chedesh. I don't remember how he said it. But I'm pretty sure, I'm 99% sure that when Mottel Schusterma said it, this was his say that. If the two days of Reshchedesh were any day of the week, he would not say ulamochrose. Let's say if it was Monday and Tuesday, he says Reshchedesh did this and this, yemashaini u be yemarshlishi, on Monday and Tuesday. The only time he would say ulamochrose, if it was the next Shabbos and Sunday. Shabbos and Varchim was a week before Reshchedesh. Reshchedesh was the next Shabbos. And there were two days of Reshchedesh, Shabbos and Sunday. Then he would say that Reshchedesh will be be yema Shabbos Kedesh ulamochrose be yemarishin. And the reason was because if you're going to say u be yemarishin, you might, someone might think that it's the day after Shabbos and Varchim because it's the Sunday after the day you announce it. So someone might confuse and think Reshchedesh is that Sunday. So that's what you say, Reshchedesh is next Shabbos and the day after Shabbos, which is Sunday. That's how I think, I'm 99% sure that's what he

04:15 did. And I think that's the way the peal, most people do that in Chabad, that's what we do. But what I'm trying to say is that l'chatchilah, the Rebbe wrote a little bit different in this Ha'orah of the letter. And then later on, not later, not much later, but right away after it was printed already, the letter came out, it was changed to the Ha'orah the way the Rebbe writes it here, that it's Kidai Tevimavar by Bala Mes Chazonim, the Shatz L'Chotziber, Bala Mesera, how they used to do Amal when it was a Kviyus like this.