The Mishna in Rosh HaShana says that in the olden days, they used to use fires to transmit when Rosh Chodesh was, until the Cuthim went about messing them up. It then lists the path that the fires used to travel from Yerushalaim to the Golah.<div>
<br></div><div>What is the purpose of this historical information? Why do I care where the fires went, as we no longer have fires today? Is it purely so that if the conditions changed (and there were no Cuthim and there was kiddush al pi reiya) that we would revert to that original method and need all the details?</div>
<div><div><br></div><div>Kol Tuv,</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>Liron Kopinsky</div><div><a href="mailto:liron.kopinsky@gmail.com" target="_blank">liron.kopinsky@gmail.com</a></div></div><br>
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