[Avodah] Rosh Hashanah and Easter

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

R' Simon Montagu wrote:

> 1) Those other mitzvot all have other days when they can be
> performed (even though in the case of lulav we lose the mitzva
> d'oraita), but if Hosha`ana Rabba was on Shabbat the `aravot
> would not happen at all in that year.

I'm not so sure. In such a case, Erev Shabbos would be the last day of taking the Lulav (and Aravos), so in such years we might have set Hoshana Raba as 20 Tishre instead of 21 Tishre.

(If you want two similar situations, one is where we read Megilas Esther on the wrong day if Shabbos gets in the way, or where "Zos Chanuka" is the last day of lighting the Neros regardless of which day of Teves it happens to be.)

> 2) We can learn from this that beating the `aravot is more
> important than we might otherwise have thought, and do it
> with more kavvana.

I believe that it is R' Eliyahu Kitov's Sefer Hatodaah (Book of Our Heritage) which makes this exact point, linking the rule of the calendar to the importance of the day.

Akiva Miller

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