Rosh Hashanah is the beginning of the year in the Jewish calendar. This is a serious opportunity, rather than the first day of the first day of January. It 's a time to see what we have grown over the year, in a sense, Jewish - once accounting for spiritual growth and religious ethics. Therefore, the shofar, the ram's horn: as the clock on the morning of the first day of school, the piercing sounds of the shofar is a wake-up test, the challenge of leading the lifeThe year just ended, and think of ways for next year.
The two-day celebration of Rosh Hashanah is called "Yoma arichta" means, which means that one day, when observance of Rosh Hashanah as 48 hours a day extended. This observation of two days is not only in the diaspora, but in Jerusalem, and observed. However, it is essential that the first day of Rosh Hashanah will fall only in the following days: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday or Shabbat.In addition, there is a subtle difference between the second day of Rosh Hashanah, when it celebrated the months of testimony and based on the second day was calculated at the time celebrated. In the earlier period, when the witnesses do not appear to have the day before it would according to the dictates of the rabbi and the second day at the request of the Holy Book, the Torah will be observed. Currently, such calculations depend on the schedule is fixed on the first day of Rosh Hashanah is a Torah obligationand the second day is a rabbinic decree.
A custom observed on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, in the afternoon (or the second day in the afternoon, when the first day is the Sabbath), meet in a stream or river to symbolically cast their sins. The ceremony is' known as "Tashlich (off" votes) and includes the launch of the crumbs from his own pocket into the river and the recitation of Bible verses. A key verse in the Jewish ceremony is from the bookMicha (7:19): "And you kill [vetashlikh] cast all our sins into the depths of the sea."
At the beginning of Rosh Hashanah, is an old custom of going door to door with a sack, where people who have money, you put in coins and can not afford to take coins out of the bag, but no one can with certainty who know and gives away. This custom is known as Tzedakha, or 'charity', which the mitzvah or commandments, which promises to share what we have observedhave with the needy.
Rosh Hashanah include the standard holiday candle lighting and choreography completed Kiddush blessing over the wine, with a variety of culinary traditions, highlighting issues of the day. This round started with a loaf of challah, taking account of a royal crown - called God's kingdom - or alternatively, the continuity of the life cycle.
Apples are dipped in honey, expressed hope that next year will be one of kindness and gentleness, andThe following is recited: ". May it be Thy will, our God and God of our fathers, our new year will be good and sweet" Honey would otherwise be consumed as well as with Apple Challah, the traditional bread soak. In fact, there are some dishes prepared with honey to celebrate Rosh Hashanah. Sephardic Jews serve covered baskets of fruit, so nobody knows what is in the basket, also no one knows what's in Serbia next year.
Many other food to eat has become common because ofCombination of their names (in Hebrew, Aramaic and Yiddish), to our prayers for the coming year. Before each meal, a prayer is said, that begins: "May it be Thy will, our God and God of our fathers ..."
On this holiday people spend most of their time to pray in the synagogues. It offers them the opportunity to repent and pray for mercy, God side by side with their friends, family or relatives. Married men dressed in suits, the traditional dress of white as a symbol of purity. Similarly, marriedThe women cover their heads in the synagogue. They pray and passionately about the "Chasan, who heard the rabbi recited.
However, Rosh Hashanah is not only fun and frolic. It 's time of prayer and deep personal introspection and time to the sensitivity of spiritual rebirth. It 's the time for families and friends to look back and try to have committed the crime, which to correct them. Family members ask for forgiveness and forgive back. Leafing through the familyAlbum of memories and the wonderful memories of the past, is the way to spend a bit 'of this holiday.
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