Either you return it to us, or we stay until the first of the new month.
Assume one begins at a particular new month of 29 days.
Soon it would be a new month, a new year.
A common enough sight on at least one night during the first week of the new month.
This ritual allowed the family to go forward into the new month free of pollution.
"But it's a new month coming up and I'll have to start over."
It is a new month, but the results are the same.
Following confirmation of their evidence, a new Jewish month would be proclaimed.
If no witnesses arrived, the new month was proclaimed the following day.
Courts must calculate to determine when a new month begins.