[Avodah] How Bitter Can A Month Be? Bittersweet.

[R Wolberg]

The month of Cheshvan is also referred to as "Mar-Cheshvan." Mar means
"bitter" - because there are no holidays this month, we allude to it as
'bitter'. However, it was the bitter wood of a tree, which Moshe used in
miraculous fashion to make the bitter waters of Marah drinkable for his
people.)  Sh'mos 15:25

The bitterness of Cheshvan is like the bitter wood of Moshe's tree and it
will make the seemingly impossible, possible, the undoable, doable, and the
non-functional, functional.

A chodesh tov to all. Let's initiate a custom to eat bittersweet chocolates
[kosher, of course] on Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan. (Wow! Two days of chocolates,
followed by a private tzom).  :-)

ri

 

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