## Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Rosh HaShana, Top Ten Rosh HaShana Facts

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1. Rosh HaShana is the anniversary of the creation of the world.


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2. The name of the festival in the Torah is not Rosh HaShana, but rather *Yom Terua* (the Day of Blasting). The name Rosh HaShana comes from the Mishna.


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3. There are actually four New Years mentioned in the Mishna: the new year for trees (fifteenth of Shvat); the new year for tithes (first of Elul); the new year for counting the reign of the king and for counting the months of the calendar (first of Nisan); and the new year for years (first of Tishrei).


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4. Rosh HaShana is the only festival that is always two days long, even in Israel.


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5. We blow the shofar one hundred times on each day of Rosh HaShana (unless it is Shabbat).


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6. The shofar is generally a ram’s horn (although it can be from other animals) to remind us of the ram that was caught in a bush that Avraham used as a sacrifice in place of his son Yitzḥak.


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7. There are various symbolic foods we eat on the evening of Rosh HaShana, called *simanim*, each one representing a blessing for the new year. The best-known example is dipping apples in honey for a sweet new year.


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8. The traditional Rosh HaShana greeting is “*Leshana tova tikatev veteḥatem*” (May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year).


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9. Many people have the custom to do *Tashlikh* on the first afternoon of Rosh HaShana (unless it falls on Shabbat, in which case we move it to the second day). This involves saying a special prayer and symbolically casting away our sins at a body of fresh water. (Some people throw breadcrumbs into the water to represent the casting away of the sins.)


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10. There is a custom not to sleep during the day of Rosh HaShana so that we start the year in the way that we mean to continue it – utilising every minute.