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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.
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.
(This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.) On Friday at sunset, the holiest day of the year in Judaism begins. It's called Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, and ...
The holiday marks the beginning of the Jewish High Holy Days and leads up to Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement. Jewish New Year is this week. What is Rosh Hashana?
Like all Jewish holidays, Yom Kippur begins in the evening, and the evening prayer (Maariv) is preceded by the special Kol Nidre (described below) prayer. The next morning, the morning prayer (Shacharit) is recited. The Torah reading is from Leviticus 16, describing the Yom Kippur Temple service and the laws of the day. The Yom Kippur Torah ...
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.
Orthodox and Conservative Judaism now generally observe Rosh Hashanah for the first two days of Tishrei, even in Israel where all other Jewish holidays dated from the new moon last only one day. The two days of Rosh Hashanah are said to constitute " Yoma Arichtah " (Aramaic: " one long day"), with certain practical implications in Halacha.
Rosh Hashanah Feasts Ess-a-Bagel’s Holiday Nosh Package. Every family has their own traditional foods that they like to eat on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, but for many the Rosh Hashanah feast ...