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Rosh Hashanah (Hebrew: ראש השנה "Beginning of the Year") is the Jewish New Year, and falls on the first and second days of the Jewish month of Tishrei (September/October). The Mishnah, the core work of the Jewish Oral Torah, sets this day aside as the new year for calculating calendar years and sabbatical and jubilee years.
A typical Jewish year lasts for 354 days, plus or minus a day. A 354-day year is 11 days shy of the Gregorian 365-day solar year. Rosh Hashanah will be a bit later this year.
Holidays for the Jewish calendar year of 5781 (2020–2021) [ edit ] Yom tov for the Three Pilgrimage Festivals ( Pesach , Shavuot , and Sukkot ) is observed for 1 day in Israel and in Reform and most Reconstructionist communities around the world, and is observed for 2 days in Orthodox and most Conservative communities outside Israel, because ...
Jewish elder blowing the ram's horn (shofar) Sequence of shofar sounds: tekiah, shevarim, teruah, tekiah The best-known ritual of Rosh Hashanah is the blowing of the shofar, a musical instrument made from an animal horn.
Best Jewish Foods For the High Holidays Rosh Hashanah is a day to celebrate the new year, attend services in which the shofar is blown, and eat symbolic foods like apples dipped in honey for a ...
Here, find the main Yom Kippur prayers in English and Hebrew, an online machzor, and learn about the five Yom Kippur services held on the High Holy Day.
Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, starts at sundown on Wednesday, Oct. 2, and continues through the evening of Friday, Oct. 4. It marks the start of the Jewish High Holidays, a 10-day season that ends with Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.
As one of the most culturally significant Jewish holidays, Yom Kippur is observed by many secular Jews who may not observe other holidays. Many secular Jews attend synagogue on Yom Kippur – for many secular Jews the High Holy Days are the only times of the year during which they attend synagogue [117] – causing synagogue attendance to soar.