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 Rosh Hashanah / Jewish New Year
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Discussion of Rosh Hashanah from antiquity to present.
Rosh Hashanah / Jewish New Year
Summary from various sources:
Rosh Hashanah (Hebrew: ראש השנה) is the Jewish New Year for people, animals, and legal contracts. The TaNaKh, Ezekiel 40:1, is the Biblical basis & oldest reference for Rosh Hashanah. The Mishnah designated Rosh Hashanah as the new year for calculating calendar years & sabbatical (shmita) & jubilee (yovel) years. (Judaism has three other "new year" observances for other legal "years")
This holiday is the first of the High Holidays (Yamim Noraim or "Days of Awe"), the most solemn days of the Hebrew year. The Yamim Noraim are preceded by the month of Elul, for self-examination and repentance. This process culminates in the ten days of the Yamim Noraim known as Asseret Yemei Teshuva ("The Ten Days of Repentance"), which begins with Rosh Hashanah and ends with Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), the holiest and most solemn day of the Hebrew year.
Rosh Hashanah extends over the first two days of the Hebrew month of Tishrei, even in Israel where most Jewish holidays are only one day. The second day is a later addition & does not follow the literal reading of the Biblical commandment, which states that the holiday should be celebrated on the first day. Since Hebrew days begin at sundown, Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown the end of the 29th of Elul.
2007 CE: from sunset, September 12 until sunset, September 14
2008 CE: from sunset, September 29 until sunset, October 1
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