[Avodah] Rosh Hashanah and Easter

[Zev Sero]

kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:

>> 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.


IIRC the Tur says that it's precisely because chibut arava is only
minhag nevi'im, that we're worried that if it's skipped one year people
will come to treat it lightly, so it needed chizuk.

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