Why is kiddush hachodesh the first mitzvah given to Klal Yisrael? After the bircahas hachodesh on Shabbas mevarchim, we say a short prayer for redemption from the golus, 'מי שעשה נסים לאבותינו וכו, why do we insert this prayer specifically after the birchas hachodesh?
The Gemarah says that the world was created through 10 utterances of Hashem expressed through the 9 times it says 'ויאמר ה during the days of creation and the word בראשית was also an expression of creation. Why is the first utterance expressed as בראשית and not ויאמר like the other utterances? The Sforno and Gra say that the creation of בראשית is the creation of time. The most primal creation is time. Why? The word for time in lashon hakodesh is זמן which is related to the word הזמנה, an invitation. An invitation means that there is a plan for the future. In other words, the creation of time is a creation of a journey for the world. When there is time, there is a past, a present and a future, there is a timeline to follow. The past leads to the future. There is an end to the timeline, an end game for the entire creation, a mission that has to be reached. That mission is the mission of geulah. The creation of בראשית is the mission statement of the creation and everything put into creation is there to facilitate the goal
The exodus from Egypt was the creation of the nation of Klal Yisrael. The nation that is to be the instrument for the geulah goes through its own act of creation. Therefore, the first mitzvah given is the mitzvah of being mekadesh the zman. To bring kedusha, to illuminate the path of the world until the geulah occurs, is the mission of Klal Yisrael. That mission statement is expressed in the mitzvah of kiddush hachodesh. This is why after we say the bircas hachodesh we add a prayer for the geulah. Our birchas hachodesh is all we have left from the mitzvah of kiddush hachodesh and we attach that to the message of kiddush hachodesh, to fulfill the mission of time, to usher in the geulah.
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