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<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>The month
of Cheshvan is also referred to as</span></font> <font size=4><span
style='font-size:13.5pt'>"Mar-Cheshvan." Mar means "bitter"</span></font>
<font size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>—</span></font> <font size=4><span
style='font-size:13.5pt'>because there are no holidays this month, we allude to
it as</span></font> <font size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>‘bitter’.</span></font>
<font size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>However,</span></font> <font
size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>it was</span></font> <font size=4><span
style='font-size:13.5pt'>the bitter wood of a tree, which Moshe used in
miraculous fashion to make the bitter waters of Marah drinkable for his
people.)</span></font><b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>
</span></i></b><b><i><font size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-weight:
bold;font-style:italic'>Sh’mos</span></font></i></b> <font size=4><span
style='font-size:13.5pt'>15:25</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>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.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>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). </span></font> <font size=4 face=Wingdings><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Wingdings'>J</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>ri</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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