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<DIV>SBA wrote:</DIV>
<DIV>> The Chido in his peirush Pesach Einayim on Mesechta RH mentions <BR>> that just as neshomos are freed from Gehenom every Shabbos - so it is <BR>> every Rosh Chodesh. <BR></DIV>
<DIV>Rosh Chodesh does seem to have that sort of special status within Kabbalah; the Zohar (Lech Lecha pg. 81b) writes that we have a neshamah yeseirah on Rosh Chodesh.</DIV>
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<DIV>See Afarkisasa d'Anya 1:50 for a discussion of why we don't use besamim after Rosh Chodesh ends, if we are losing the neshamah yeseirah at that point. The Divrei Yatziv YD 236 uses this (presence of neshamah yeseirah) to explain why some minyanim won't have an avel lead minchah on Erev Rosh Chodesh; mekubalim (cited in Tzitz Eliezer 7:49:2) wrote that the neshamah enters at chatzos of the erev.</DIV>
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<DIV>Be well,</DIV>
<DIV>Mordechai <BR></DIV>
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