Rosh Hashanah: a simple guide to welcoming the Jewish New Year
Rosh Hashanah is more than the start of a new year. It’s an opportunity to reflect, reconnect, and consider what we want to carry forward. 🍎🍯
Whether you’re familiar with the traditions or learning about them for the first time, swipe through for a simple guide to the Jewish New Year, from the shofar and apples dipped in honey to the meaning behind Shana Tova.
Welcome the Jewish New Year with This Simple Guide
1. What is Rosh Hashanah?
Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year and the beginning of the High Holidays. It marks the start of a new year on the Jewish calendar and gives us an opportunity to pause, reflect, and begin again. Shana Tova!
2. When is it?
Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown on September 11 and ends after nightfall on September 13. It begins on the first day of Tishrei, the first month of the Jewish year.
3. What is it about?
Reflection. Renewal. Intention. Rosh Hashanah invites us to look back on the year behind us, think about who we want to be, and consider what we want to carry into the year ahead.
4. How do we observe it?
Dip apples in honey for a sweet new year
Share round challah
Hear the shofar
Gather for prayer and community
Spend time reflecting and reconnecting
5. What do we say?
Shana Tova - "Have a good year"
or
Shana Tova U'Metukah - "Have a good and sweet year"
A new year together
However you enter this new year, with hope, reflection, joy, grief, uncertainty, or a little bit of everything, there is space for all of it.
From all of us at Gesher Community Care, Shana Tova U'Metukah 🍎🍯
