<div dir="ltr">We keep today 2 days RH even in EY basically for historical reasons of doubt in the past. In fact the Baal Hamaor claims that there were periods of time in the early middle ages where only day of RH was kept in EY since we now have a permanent calendar<div><br clear="all"><div>Rav Dessler asks that if so the 2nd day of RH is not the "real" RH. If so how we can say in our prayers that today we are being judged, today is the day the world conceived (hayom haras olam), today the books of life are opened etc.</div><div><br></div><div>I was not clear about his answer. Assuming the two days are for different types of "din" what happened before the institution of a 2 day RH and during the period the Baal Hamaor describes.</div><div>Are people from EY and chutz la-aretz judged on different days.</div><div>Basically the question boils down to the question of how a takanah of the rabbis can effect heavenly judgement</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div></div>
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