Spiritual Energy of the Month: Radiance
Iyar: 5784: Nightfall Tuesday May 7th, 2024 - Nightfall Thursday, May 9th, 2024.
Pronunciation: Ee-Are
Wellness Area: Healing
Astrological Sign: Shor (Taurus)
Hebrew Letter: Vav
Holidays
Yom HaZikaron:
(Monday May 13th, 2024)
Yom Ha’atzmaut
(Tuesday, May 14th, 2024)
Pesach Sheni
(Nightfall Tuesday May 21, 2024 - nightfall on Wednesday, May 22, 2024.
Lag B’Omer
(Nightfall Saturday, May 25th, 2024-nightfall on Sunday May 26th, 2024.
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(כ כִּ֛י אֲנִ֥י יי רֹפְאֶֽךָ׃ (ס)
(26)....for I the LORD am your healer.”
In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left the land of Egypt, in the month of Ziv—that is, the second month—in the fourth year of his reign over Israel, Solomon began to build the House of the LORD.
(א) מצות פסח שני בארבעה עשר באיר - שיעשה פסח שני בארבעה עשר באיר, כל מי שלא יכל לעשות פסח ראשון בארבעה עשר בניסן, כגון מחמת טמאה או שהיה בדרך רחוקה, שנאמר (במדבר ט יא) בחדש השני בארבעה עשר יום בין הערבים יעשו אתו. ועוד הורונו חכמים זכרונם לברכה (פסחים עג, א) דלאו דוקא טמאה ורחוק הדרך לבד, אלא כל ששגג, או נאנס, או אפילו הזיד ולא הקריב בראשון מקריב בשני.
(1) The commandment of the second Pesach (Pesach Sheni) on the fourteenth of Iyar: That anyone who was unable to offer the first Pesach offering on the fourteenth day of Nissan - for example, due to impurity or because [they] was at a distance - [offer] the second Pesach offering on the fourteenth day of Iyar; as it is stated (Numbers 9:11), "On the second month on the fourteenth day in the afternoon, you shall offer it." The Sages taught us further (Pesachim 73a) that it is not specifically ritual impurity or distance, but any case of inadvertence or duress; or even if was volitional and [they] did not offer the first one, [they] may offer the second one.
The tribe of the month, Yissachar, deeply understood the rhythms of time:
The body part of the month , the kidneys, are referenced here:
my conscience admonishes me at night.