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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]").
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.
Rosh Hashanah: 5 Sep to 5 Oct Yom Kippur: 14 Sep to 14 Oct Sukkot (first of seven days) 19 Sep to 19 Oct Shemini Atzeret: 26 Sep to 26 Oct Simchat Torah: 27 Sep to 27 Oct Yom HaAliyah (school observance) 11 Oct to 10 Nov Hanukkah (first of eight days) 28 Nov to 27 Dec Tu Bishvat: 15 Jan to 14 Feb Purim: 24 Feb to 26 Mar Shushan Purim: 25 Feb to ...
The Mishnah then discusses of the order of Rosh Hashanah Mussaf prayers (4:4); of the succession of the Malkhuyot, Zikhronot, and Shofarot; of the Bible verses concerning the kingdom of God, Providence, and the trumpet-call of the future (4:5), and of the leader in prayer and his relation to the teki'ah (4:6); descriptions of the festival are ...
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According to the first opinion in the Mishnah, Rosh Hashanah L'Ma'sar Behemah coincides with Rosh Ḥodesh Elul. [ 5 ] Commencing the first of Elul (and continuing throughout the month), in the Ashkenazic tradition, the shofar is blown at the end of the shacharit morning service (and in some communities, at Mincha as will) in anticipation of ...
Tu BiShvat appears in the Mishnah in Tractate Rosh Hashanah as one of the four new years in the Jewish calendar. The discussion of when the New Year occurs was a source of debate among the rabbis, who argued: [3] [4] [5] The first of Nisan is the "new year for kings and festivals".
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