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Happy New Year




Members of Isaiah Temple throw bread into the ocean symbolizing 'casting out  sins' at Santa Monica Beach during Rosh Hashanah Tashlich Service on Tuesday September 30, 2008. Tashlich, the Jewish practice of symbolically casting our sins out onto the water is derived from verse 7:19 in the Book of Micah, “And You shall throw their sins into the depths of the sea.”  Rosh ha-Shanah rŏsh hə-shä'nə [Heb.,=head of the year], the Jewish New Year, also known as the Feast of the Trumpets. It is observed on the first day of the seventh month, Tishri, occurring usually in September. Rosh ha-Shanah is held in great reverence as the Day of Judgment (Yom ha-Din), the beginning of the 10-day period concluding with Yom Kippur and known as the Days of Awe, during which, according to tradition, all the people of the earth pass before the Lord and are marked in the Book of Life or in the Book of Death. A distinguishing feature of the New Year is the blowing of the shofar (a ram's horn), which summons Jews to penitential observance. Orthodox and Conservative Jews celebrate Rosh ha-Shanah for two days; most Reform congregations celebrate the first day. See L. Jacobs, A Guide to Rosh ha-Shanah (1969).
Posted on Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 12:01AM by Registered CommenterFabian Lewkowicz in , | CommentsPost a Comment

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