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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]").
Live recording of Avinu Malkeinu during Yom Kippur Morning Service at the Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem. Avinu Malkeinu (Hebrew: אָבִינוּ מַלְכֵּנוּ; "Our Father, Our King") is a Jewish prayer recited during Jewish services during the Ten Days of Repentance, from Rosh Hashanah through Yom Kippur inclusive.
At midnight on the Saturday night or Sunday morning before Rosh Hashanah (or one week before that, if the first day of Rosh Hashanah is Monday or Tuesday), Ashkenazi Jews begin reciting selichot. On the following days, however, they generally recite the selichot before the regular morning prayers. On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, extra prayers are ...
Erev Rosh Hashanah (eve of the first day): 29 Elul; Rosh Hashanah: 1–2 Tishrei; According to oral tradition, Rosh Hashanah (Hebrew: ראש השנה) (lit., "Head of the Year") is the Day of Memorial or Remembrance (Hebrew: יום הזכרון, Yom HaZikaron), [25] and the day of judgment (Hebrew: יום הדין, Yom HaDin). [26]
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)."
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 ...
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.
It also means that Rosh Hashanah can fall as early as Sept. 5 and as late as Oct. 5. This year it falls on Oct. 2 and ends Oct. 4. Within the Metonic cycle, seven of the 19 are leap years ...