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Thus Rosh Hashanah means "head of the year", referring to the day of the New Year. [3] [4] The term Rosh Hashanah in its current meaning does not appear in the Torah. Leviticus 23:24 [5] refers to the festival of the first day of the seventh month as zikhron teru'ah ("a memorial of blowing [of horns]").
Edgar C. Whisenant (September 25, 1932 – May 16, 2001 [citation needed]) was an American former NASA engineer and Bible student from Little Rock, Arkansas, who predicted the rapture and World War III would occur during Rosh Hashanah in 1988, sometime between September 11 and September 13.
The Mishnah commences with an account of the four beginnings of the religious and the civil year (); it speaks of the four judgement-days of the pilgrim festivals and Rosh ha-Shanah (); of the six months in which the messengers of the Sanhedrin announce the month (); of the two months, the beginnings of which witnesses announce to the Sanhedrin even on the Sabbath (), and even if the moon is ...
(In Israel, it is only made on the eve of Rosh Hashanah.) In Israel, this is the only occasion with a "three-day holiday" (the two days of Rosh Hashanah followed by the Sabbath). Due to immediately following Rosh Hashanah, an abridged form of Kabbalat Shabbat is recited at Maariv on Shabbat Shuvah. The Fast of Gedaliah falls on Saturday. Since ...
In the Eastern Ashkenazic rite, the Ark is opened during Avinu Malkeinu, and at the end of the prayer, the Ark is closed; in the Western Ashkenazic rite, the Ark is opened only on Rosh Hashanah in the morning and during all of the prayers on Yom Kippur, but not on Rosh Hashanah in the afternoon or the rest of the Ten Days of Repentance.
Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year. It is the first of the High Holy Days or Yamim Nora'im ("Days of Awe") which usually occur in the early autumn of the Northern Hemisphere . Rosh Hashanah is a two day celebration which begins on the first day of Tishrei , the first month of the Jewish calendar.
The Seder for the night of Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish tradition of eating a festive meal composed of symbolic foods, reciting psalms, and singing zmirot. The word seder means "order" in Hebrew, denoting the specific and ritually meaningful order in which the courses of the meal proceeds.
The Mishnah in Seder Moed Rosh Hashanah 1:1 indicates there are four New Year's Day festivals (Rosh Hashanot) that take place over the course of the year. According to the first opinion, "The first of Elul is the Rosh HaShanah for tithing behemah (domesticated animals)."