Shalom! Welcome to the Jewish Holiday Page
This page will be updated throughout the year giving you some information and resources for including more Jewish Tradition and Torah into your Jewish year! This year is 5774 of the Hebrew Calendar and we hope for a very sweet and successful year full of Torah Blessings!
Chabad.org, Aish.com, and My Jewish Learning have wonderful resources for your real Jewish Holidays and learning. Please be careful of any false Jewish services that are also known as Hebrew Roots/Messianic groups. They will look Jewish and talk like Jews and even celebrate these holidays but they are NOT Jewish because they worship the Christian Christ that they call a "Messiah". For further information on this subject please visit Jews For Judaism.
Chabad.org, Aish.com, and My Jewish Learning have wonderful resources for your real Jewish Holidays and learning. Please be careful of any false Jewish services that are also known as Hebrew Roots/Messianic groups. They will look Jewish and talk like Jews and even celebrate these holidays but they are NOT Jewish because they worship the Christian Christ that they call a "Messiah". For further information on this subject please visit Jews For Judaism.
Enjoy hearing this Shofar blast and lovely Avinu Malkeinu by Barbara Streisand
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Rosh Hashanah - ראש השנה
Rosh Hashanah started in וַיִּקְרָא (Vayikra or otherwise known as the book of Leviticus) as Yom Teru'ah which means "the Day of Blowing the Shofar". It is to be a Holy Day and a Shabbat Shabbaton which is a special day of not working. Rosh Hashanah is recognized as one of four new year observances and begins on the first two days of Tishrei. Some of the customs include dipping apples in honey an action of hope for a sweet new year as well as eating of new fruits for the season such as pomegranates.
Preparations for Rosh Hashanah during the Jewish month of אֱלוּל (Elul) Jews introspect over the past year and consider what we have done that might have caused hurt to another and we do our best to rectify any wrongs that we've done. It is also a wonderful time to consider our relationship to G'd and what our purposes is in this life as well as what our priorities are. A period of repentance precedes Rosh Hashanah because after this festival we have יוֹם כִּפּוּר, Yom Kippur, which is the Holiest day of the year; a day of atonement and judgement from G'd, during which time it is said that G'd will judge us and decide our fates for the next year to come. Truly tzedakah (charity) and teshuvah (repentance) should be done throughout the year but this is a time of year to renew and refresh our souls as we hear the blast of the שׁוֹפָר Shofar. Do you have a Jewish community to attend High Holiday services? No? Or perhaps you do but for some reason cannot go? Check out OneShul's High Holiday services this year at this link.
Preparations for Rosh Hashanah during the Jewish month of אֱלוּל (Elul) Jews introspect over the past year and consider what we have done that might have caused hurt to another and we do our best to rectify any wrongs that we've done. It is also a wonderful time to consider our relationship to G'd and what our purposes is in this life as well as what our priorities are. A period of repentance precedes Rosh Hashanah because after this festival we have יוֹם כִּפּוּר, Yom Kippur, which is the Holiest day of the year; a day of atonement and judgement from G'd, during which time it is said that G'd will judge us and decide our fates for the next year to come. Truly tzedakah (charity) and teshuvah (repentance) should be done throughout the year but this is a time of year to renew and refresh our souls as we hear the blast of the שׁוֹפָר Shofar. Do you have a Jewish community to attend High Holiday services? No? Or perhaps you do but for some reason cannot go? Check out OneShul's High Holiday services this year at this link.
Videos for How to do Rosh Hashanah
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L'Shanah Tovah!!!