[Avodah] Apropos for Rosh Chodesh

[Richard Wolberg]

The following article documents that it has been proven there is an increase in crime when there is a full moon.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1444800/pdf/bmjcred00533-0087.pdfy

Interestingly, Rosh Chodesh is a holiday at the opposite side of the full moon.
However, Pesach and Succos occur on a full moon so we sublimate the full moon tendencies into holiness and prayer.
A guten chodesh.
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