Welcoming the Shechinah Kiddush Levana or Blessing of the Moon (Birkat HaLevana) is seemingly small rabbinical mitzvah based on Talmud Sanhedrin: Rabbi Yohanan is quoted in the Gemara Sanhedrin 42a saying: “One who makes the blessing for the new moon in its proper time is considered as if he welcomed the ” Gemara is drawing a parallel between the physical moon…
