Kiddush levana is generally understood to be an evolution of the
However, many other scholars ascribe Kiddush l… 展开

Kiddush levana was "a highly visible target for rationalist critiques, both Jewish and non-Jewish".
Alilot Devarim (1467), a satirical critique of rabbinical practice, attacks the custom of waiting to recite t… 展开

Kiddush levana is a d'rabbanan. While it is customary to say the prayer with the large crowd, or at least with a minyan, it can be also said alone. According to David Lida [he], even one who has not yet said Maariv should recite Kid… 展开

Conservative Judaism endorses the recital of Kiddush levana. Isaac Klein wrote that Kiddush levana "embodies much that might be appealing to contemporary Jews" and "has a mystic, haunting air about it", but that it is an "all b… 展开

According to Israel Abrahams, in the Middle Ages, "Blessing on the moon . . . in origin tainted with no superstitious implications, was seized upon by the mystics and emphasized into full blown superstition". Other scholars c… 展开