## Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 1 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/1) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** **ROSH HASHANA IN A NUTSHELL** ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 2 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/2) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** Anyone who wishes to live a life with meaning will find themselves asking these or similar questions. A thinking and reflective person will address them more often than once a year. Rosh HaShana ensures that even someone for whom introspection does not come naturally will still address these questions, and consider the answers to them, every year on the day that encourages the process of *Ḥeshbon hanefesh* (self-accounting/introspection), when we stand in the presence of God and consider our lives. ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 3 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/3) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** The fleeting nature of life can lead to depression and a sense of nihilism and emptiness, or conversely it can inspire a search for meaning, and an aspiration to make every minute and every day count. Rosh HaShana and Judaism in general encourage the second approach. ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 4 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/4) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** From a young child to an elderly person, these questions are the basic questions of a self-aware being who aspires to the betterment of their life. This is a natural wish even in young children. Having an adult to guide them in the asking and answering of these questions will be a good catalyst for the process. ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 5 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/5) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** **DEEP DIVING INTO THE *TEFILLA* OF THE DAY** ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 6 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/6) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** From the list of ten themes found above in “What Rosh HaShana Says to Us,” the following are clearly expressed in this *tefilla*: ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 7 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/7) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** Life is short; life is a gift from God. ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 8 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 8](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/8) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** We are free to act. ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 9 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 9](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/9) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** Life is not easy. ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 10 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 10](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/10) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** We are dust of the earth but within us is the breath of God. ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 11 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 11](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/11) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** Further Rosh HaShana themes also found here are: ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 12 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 12](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/12) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** The awesome nature of the day ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 13 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 13](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/13) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** God as King; God as a Judge and Rosh HaShana as a Day of Judgement ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 14 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 14](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/14) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** The power of the sound of the shofar ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 15 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 15](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/15) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** Our future is in the balance and is decided on this day. ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 16 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 16](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/16) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** We can still affect the decision through acts of *teshuva*, *tefilla*, and *tzedaka*. ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 17 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 17](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/17) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** God is a forgiving God. ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 18 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 18](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/18) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** These three mitzvot represent the best actions we can take to repair the three paradigm relationships a person can have: with ourselves (*teshuva* – repentance); with God (*tefilla* – prayer); and with other humans (*tzedaka* – charity). To make a change we must focus on improving these areas in our life. ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 19 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 19](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/19) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** While there are aspects of despair found in this prayer (such as the vulnerability and fleeting nature of human life), at its core there is a profound statement of hope and positivity. It declares that our fate is ultimately within our control, that we have the secret to averting the evil decree, and that God is a forgiving God. ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 20 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 20](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/20) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** **IT ONCE HAPPENED ON ROSH HASHANA…** ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 21 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 21](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/21) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** Rav Kook was famous for his love of all Jews. Rather than showing disapproval for their decision to work on Rosh HaShana, which may have alienated them further from Judaism, he offered them the chance to hear the shofar at their workplace. He showed that he cared, and this approach ultimately brought them closer to Judaism. ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 22 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 22](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/22) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** The sound of the shofar is a powerful sound that reflects the emotions of the soul. Perhaps the workers connected to its spiritual dimension, and it touched their souls. Perhaps it was a familiar sound from their youth and it spoke to them once more and woke them from the haze of the pressures of adult life. Or perhaps it represented the love of Rav Kook for his fellow Jew and it was this that moved them. ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 23 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 23](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/23) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** Some of the lessons we can learn are: the power of the sound of the shofar, if we are only open to hearing it; the power of acts of love and kindness, more important even than *teshuva* and repairing our relationship with God; and that fixing our human relationships comes first. ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 24 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 24](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/24) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** **ḤIDON ON THE ḤAG (A QUICK QUIZ)** ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 25 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 25](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/25) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** 1. Head of the Year (not New Year!). ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 26 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 26](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/26) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** 2. First and second of Tishrei. ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 27 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 27](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/27) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** 3. Five: Rosh HaShana; *Yom Terua* (Day of Blasting); *Yom HaDin* (Day of Judgement); *Yom HaZikaron* (Day of Remembrance); *HaYom Harat Olam* (the Day of the Creation of the World). ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 28 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 28](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/28) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** 4. *Tekia*; *shevarim*; *terua*. ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 29 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 29](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/29) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** 5. One hundred. ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 30 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 30](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/30) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** 6. Apples and honey; dates; pomegranates; carrots; leeks; beets; squash/gourds; fish; and the head of a fish or sheep. Your family may have additional traditions. ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 31 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 31](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/31) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** 7. Because the many seeds are meant to represent the 613 mitzvot in the Torah. ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 32 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 32](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/32) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** 8.  “Flowing water,” preferably a stream with fish. ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 33 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 33](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/33) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** 9. *Malkhuyot* (kingship); *Zikhronot* (remembrances); and *Shofarot* (shofar blasts). ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 34 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Educational Companion to the Questions 34](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Rosh%20HaShana,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/34) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** 10. Because there is a difference of opinion as to whether the second day of Rosh HaShana is a new festival or a continuation of the first day, we eat a fruit that we have not eaten for thirty days so that we can make a *Sheheḥeyanu* blessing to cover both the fruit and, if needed, the new festival of the second day.