LEV915 The convention is achieved by proclamation, or even, if we dare, they are the same activity: whenever the community proclaims a holiday, the community as proclaimer already has convened, already is celebrating. The calendar is the purpose for convening: to draw the people together is to hallow it. A community needs a calendar, needs convocations and communal time--to question that need is to destroy the community. ... We introduced the issue of the calendar from Levinas’ discussions of the individual’s need for social help in repenting and in constituting time through the other’s forgiveness. We see this in the Mishnaic text [Mishnah Rosh Hashana 2:8b-9] that the determination of the calendar involves a set of speech-acts, and that the community must itself determine its own time, the time for communal repentance, confession, and atonement.