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What First Day?[1]

You shall take on the first day…[2] A medrash[3] asks: “Is it the first day? In fact, it is the fifteenth [of the month]! Rather, it is the first day in the accounting of aveiros.” The meaning of this is not readily apparent. Assuming that Yom Kippur brought forgiveness for past sins, the new accounting […]

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