New Moon New Month New Mitzvah

The already excited Jewish people were thrilled when they were presented their very first Mitzvah as a full-fledged nation. The commandment is to establish the Jewish months starting with the springtime month of Nissan.

“It’s really nice that our months follow the cycle of the moon,” noted Shemesh ben Kochav, an astronomer from the tribe of Shimon, “Like the moon, it sometimes looks like we are going to disappear, but you can always count on us to bounce back.”