The last day of the month is called, "The little Day of Atonement, w and it is fit and proper to do penance on that day. On the first day of the mouth it is a pious act to prepare an extra dish for dinner in honor of the day. God has given the first of the mouth (as a festival) more for women than for men, because the three annual festivals are according to the three patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and because the twelve months are according to the twelve tribes; and as the tribes sinned in the matter of the golden calf, and the women were unwilling to give up their golden earrings for that idolatrous purpose, therefore they deserved that God should give them as their reward the first days of the twelve months, according to the number of the tribes.