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Rabbi/Cantor Meeka Simerly of Temple Beth Tikvah in Wayne, taped services for the Jewish High Holidays, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in July. The temple will be holding virtual services for the ...
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, marks the beginning of the Jewish High Holy Days leading up to Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement and the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. Here's what ...
Rosh Hashanah begins the leadup to Yom Kippur, some of the holiest days in the Hebrew year (known as "Days of Awe"). Rosh Hashanah celebrates God's creation of mankind and is sometimes viewed as a ...
The day before Rosh Hashanah day is known as Erev Rosh Hashanah ("Rosh Hashanah eve"). [42] It is the 29th day of the Hebrew month of Elul, ending at sundown, when Rosh Hashanah commences. Some communities perform hatarat nedarim (a nullification of vows) after the morning prayer services. [43]
(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 ...
The shofar (ram's horn) is blown at the end of morning services on weekdays, and in some communities in the afternoon service as well (it is omitted on the eve of Rosh Hashanah in order to differentiate between the customary blasts of the month of Elul and the obligatory blasts of Rosh Hashanah, and in some communities it is omitted for the 3 ...
Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, began this week, and it comes a little later than last year's holiday. The holiday, which also can be spelled Rosh Hashanah, marks the beginning of the Jewish ...
A man holding a shofar while saying selichot at the Western Wall during the Ten Days of Repentance. In Judaism, the Ten Days of Repentance (עֲשֶׂרֶת יְמֵי תְּשׁוּבָה , ʿǍseret yəmēy təšūvā) are the first ten days of the Hebrew month of Tishrei, beginning with the Jewish New Year Rosh Hashanah and ending with the conclusion of Yom Kippur.