ChaBaD Jewish Calendar Thursday, August 17, 2023 30 Av, 5783
ChaBaD Jewish Calendar Thursday, August 17, 2023 30 Av, 5783 Rosh Chodesh Elul Torah Reading Rosh Chodesh: Numbers 28:1-3; Numbers 28:3-15 Jewish History 2nd Tablets Hewn (1313 BCE) On the last day of Av of the year 2448 from creation (1313 BCE), Moses carved, by G-d's command, two stone tablets -- each a cube measuring 6x6x3 tefachim (a tefach, "handbreadth", is approximately 3.2 inches) -- to replace the two divinely-made tablets, on which G-d had inscribed the Ten Commandments, which Moses had smashed 42 days earlier upon witnessing Israel's worship of the Golden Calf. Links: The 120-Day Version of the Human Story Laws and Customs Rosh Chodesh Observances Today is the first of the two days of Rosh Chodesh (“Head of the Month”) for the month of Elul (when a month has 30 days, both the last day of the month and the first day of the following month serve as the following month’s Rosh Chodesh). Special portions are added to the daily prayers: Hallel (Psalms 11