This Shabbat we get to read from two separate Torah scrolls (yipppeeee!)
. We read the special part about the mitzva to make months, and to make this upcoming month (Nissan) the first month. So that means this week is New years!!! Hooray!
Let’s picture this scene for a minute.
The Jews are comin’ out of Egypt after bashing and trashing- bumping and thumping- smashing and crashing Egypt for a full year. G-d had pulled off some pretty cool stuff for them including an animal show that would make ANIMAL PLANET look like a petting zoo, a pretty HOT hail storm, and the worst water shortage (or rather blood plenty) in history. HE brought skin diseases that would make anthrax seem like sugar and a plague on all the cattle that left the Egyptians wishing they had any cows to get mad cow disease. All the Egyptian radio and TV stations were forced to close down due to darkness, and ConEd of Cairo insisted they were doing all in their power to get things back on track… to no avail.
Okay, okay, I’m getting a little carried away with my imagination, but my point is that G-d had just done awesome stuff for the Jewish people. They were ready for the real deal- the mitzvos- the Torah.
What’s THE FIRST MITZVAH that G-d gave them? Making the Jewish calendar. Huh? What’s so important about that?
The answer of course is because we need a calendar to know when Camp nageela starts, and to know when visiting day will be so we can plan our candy consumption.
Besides that there might be another reason (duh)
The months are a majorly important part of being Jewish for a bunch of reasons. One of them is because the Jewish people are just like the moon (yup, we're made of green cheese, too). The moon gets bigger and smaller, and when it's small we know that it's gonna get big again. We're like that too. We go through some tough times, but with G-d on our side, like HE was in Egypt back in the day, we're in pretty good shape.There may not be a man in the moon, but there is a little moon in every man.
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