<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><font size="4">"This Month" It says (Ch.12:verse 2): "This month shall be for you...”<br>The Sages have taught that just as the moon disappears at the end </font><div><font size="4">of each month but returns and grows to fullness, so it is with Israel, </font></div><div><font size="4">which explains why Israel orders its calendar by the moon, </font><div><font size="4">for it is used to living in the night of history.</font><div><font size="4"><br>This brings to mind the beautiful <i>vort </i>that the Hebrew word for Night, <i>Laila</i>,</font></div><div><font size="4">spelled <i>lamed, yud, lamed hey,</i> contains the Name of G-d (<i>Yud hey</i>). </font></div><div><font size="4">Hidden in the night is G-d (<i>yud, hay</i>).</font></div></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><br></body></html>