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Our psalm features the blowing of a shofar at a certain time (verse 4). But just when is debatable.<\/span><\/p>\n

Se`adyah\u2019s Arabic translation reads: \u201cBlow the [ram\u2019s] horn on the first days of the months, on the [sacrificial] offerings of national holidays,\u201d and his commentary notes that this is in fulfillment of a Torah prescription: <\/span>\u201c<\/span>And on your joyous occasions\u2014your fixed festivals and new moon days\u2014you shall sound the trumpets over your burnt offerings and your sacrifices of well-being\u201d (Numbers 10:10). The Aramaic Targum of Yonatan, however, encapsulates a different rabbinic tradition that associates this verse with Rosh Hashanah: \u201cBlow the horn in the month of Tishri, in the month in which the day of our festivals is concealed.\u201d As the Talmud explains: \u201cOn which holiday is the moon concealed? On Rosh Hashanah\u201d (Rosh Hashanah 8a-b).<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are two modern translations; note their correspondence regarding the first half of the verse as opposed to their disagreement regarding its closing.<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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JPS – Blow the horn (<\/span>shofar<\/span><\/i>) on the new moon (<\/span>ba-chodesh<\/span><\/i>), on the full moon (<\/span>ba-keseh<\/span><\/i>) for our feast day.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Robert Alter – Blast the ram\u2019s horn on the new moon, when the moon starts to wax, for our festival day.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Alter\u2019s rendition can be regarded as consistent with the Talmudic tradition since it treats <\/span>ba-keseh<\/span><\/em> implicitly as a form of concealment, since at the time that the moon \u201cstarts to wax\u201d it is otherwise hidden. He stated:<\/span><\/p>\n

The Hebrew <\/span>keseh<\/span><\/em> drives from the verb that means \u201cto cover.\u201d Although many interpreters understand it as a reference to the full moon [JPS], it is something of a stretch to imagine that the festive celebration of the new moon invoked in the first verset somehow goes on to a point in time fourteen days later in the second verset. In any case, \u201dcover\u201d accords far better with the time of the month when the moon is only a thin sliver than with the time when it is bright and full.<\/span><\/p>\n

The JPS translation, however, seems to contradict that specific tradition while it remains consistent with that of Se`adyah since two of the three major pilgrimage festivals commence with the \u201cfull moon\u2014Pesach on the 15<\/span>th<\/span> of Nisan and Sukkot on the 15<\/span>th<\/span> of Tishrei.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":48522,"id":48522,"title":"Num28-Moon-Is-Waxing-or-Waning","filename":"Num28-Moon-Is-Waxing-or-Waning-e1548874057264.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Num28-Moon-Is-Waxing-or-Waning-e1548874057264.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/celebrating-sin\/num28-moon-is-waxing-or-waning\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"num28-moon-is-waxing-or-waning","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":48521,"date":"2019-01-30 18:47:07","modified":"2023-08-16 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