Q. I had an issue with the fellow in charge of printing the monthly magazine of our shul. They publicize the forthcoming Smachot as weddings, Bar Mitzvas etc. Since I’m marrying off my daughter a few weeks after the end of the Yamim Tovim, the fellow told me that it is too early to place my wedding announcement on the issue publicized before Rosh Hashana because there will be a new magazine printed after and still before the wedding. Yet it is far better for my family to have our Simcha publicized on the far more read issue before Rosh Hashana. Who is right?
A. One may point to the fact that Seforim write that from Tu Beav on, one can already greet his friends with the blessing of “Kesiva Vechasima Tova” that applies to Rosh Hashana. Imrei Yosef mentions that that greeting has the same Gemtriya of Tu Beav (Michtam Ledovid p. 35, Otzar Halochos p. 17: n. 16, Nitei Gavriel and others).
Therefore on may argue that at least six weeks before the occasion, greetings could already be said.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit’a.