[Avodah] Rosh Hashana: The Universal Two Day Yom Tov

[Lisa Liel]

On 9/12/2013 6:24 PM, Zev Sero wrote:
> On 12/09/2013 5:39 PM, Lisa Liel wrote:
>> See, and I would have phrased it differently.  "Although those of us 
>> living in Eretz Yisrael are zocheh to keep most yamim tovim the way 
>> they were originally intended to be observed, b'avonoteynu ha-rabbim, 
>> we are still stuck in the case of Rosh Hashanah."
>
> You would rather have less kedusha than more?! There is an extra day 
> of Rosh Hashana, with all that comes with it, and you attribute it to 
> avonoteinu harabim and would rather not have it?!

I don't see two days of Rosh Hashanah as more kedushah than one.  On the 
contrary.

> When Ezra and Nechemia announced a second day of Rosh Hashana the 
> people cried, thinking that this meant they were still in galus, but 
> they assured them that this wasn't so: "Today is holy to Hashem your 
> G-d, don't mourn and don't cry [...] go eat fats and drink sweets, and 
> send presents to he who has nothing prepared [because they were only 
> expecting one day of yomtov], for today is holy to our L-rd, *and do 
> not be sad*, for Hashem's bliss is your fortress".

Yisrael, im lo neviim heim, bnei neviim heim.  That was a special day, 
and I don't think we can generalize from it.

Lisa