Rabbi's Message

We have begun the month of Adar, which means Purim is close at hand, followed exactly four weeks later, in Nissan, by Pesach. Believe it or not, Adar used to be the last month of the year. Nissan used to be the first month, as in fact we read in the Torah in the very first mitzvah given to the Israelites, that the month of the Exodus should be the start of our year.

And so it was, until our Judean ancestors were exiled to Babylonia...Read more...