[Mesorah] RH a chag?

Joshua Meisner jmeisner at gmail.com
Wed Oct 10 14:42:53 PDT 2007


On 10/10/07, Michael Hamm <msh210 at math.wustl.edu> wrote:
>
> My Artscroll Rosh Hashana machzor, on the page with "l'shana tova
> tikasev", says that after the first night it's traditional to say instead
> "gut yom tov" or "chag sameach".  Since when is RH a chag?  I thought that
> referred only to the shalosh r'galim.


I also thought that the term "chag" referred solely to instances where there
is a chiyuv chagigah, but it says in Tehillim 81, "Tik'u ba-chodesh shofar,
ba-keseh l'yom chageinu".

- Joshua
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