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

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Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023
  1. Rosh HaShana is the anniversary of the creation of the world.
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Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023
  1. 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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Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023
  1. 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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Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023
  1. Rosh HaShana is the only festival that is always two days long, even in Israel.
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Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023
  1. We blow the shofar one hundred times on each day of Rosh HaShana (unless it is Shabbat).
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Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023
  1. 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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Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023
  1. 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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Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023
  1. The traditional Rosh HaShana greeting is “Leshana tova tikatev veteḥatem” (May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year).
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Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023
  1. 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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Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023
  1. 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.