ROSH HA'SHANAH -("Head of the year") is celebrated on the first and second days of the Hebrew month of Tishray.
Sending Rosh Hashanah greeting cards is a custom that goes back many years.Teachers should have an art & craft lesson in which the children will create thier own Holiday cards for: Parents, Grandparents and friens.
that goes back many years.
On the eve of Rosh-Hashanah services, the families are joined to a dinner.
A Special meal with the tradishional Gefilteh (stuffed) fish.
Knaiedlech,(Matzo ball soup) or other soups.
Brisket, Vegetables, A Salad and whatever foods your Grandparents and family has brought to the U.S from thier country.
On the table instead of the regular long Challa we find Round Challa Bread.
(look at recipe for round Challa bread).
The Challah is Round to symbolize a Crown. Our G-D - the King of Kings, and Queen of Queens.
The "Jewish New Year" is a time for remembering the previous year and planning for the next.
During Rosh Hashanah we wish each other: "L'SHANAH TOVA U'METUKA" (which means "To a good and Sweet year")
Iy is an old tradition for the family's to dip Apples and Challa bread into Honey, and Wish itch other "L'SHANAH METUKAH" - To A Sweet Year.
{Look up the song "Apples dipt in Honey".
During Rosh Hashanah 100 notes are blown on the shofar each day.
The names of the Shofar notes are:
TEKIYA.....A long clear blast
SHVAREEM...A set of three short notes
TRU'AH.....A fast call of 9 very short notes in a row.
TEKEYA GDOLA...The Great Loud long Shofar blast.
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** It is a Mitzva, a commandment, for us to hear the voice of the Shofar on Rosh Ha'Shanah and Yom Kippur,
TASHLICH
Tradition tells us to go to a body of running water to cast our sins away.
We observe Tashlich, ("casting off") our sins.
by casting small peaces of bread onto the running waters.
The peaces of bread are eaten by the fish, ducks & birds).
We look back and remember good and not so good things we did in our past.
We ask our loved ones, friends, peers, everyone we might have hurt or done wrong to please forgive us.
While we again wish everyone a Happy, Healthy, Sweet and Peaceful year.
While Looking forward, we hope not to repeat our wrong doings, We look to a goal in the New Year, help others, give to the needy. and just try to be a better person to Ourselves, Others, as well as to Animals and Nature.
On Rosh Hashanah we great each other with "L'SHANAH TOVA Tikatevoon" which means: May G-D write you in the good book of Life for a Good and Healthy Year!
Old legend tells us that during the High Holy Days G-D writes down, in his book of life, whether or not we had led a good life during the year, telling us that our actions are judged by G-D and needs to look at by ourselves.
" L'Shanah Tova U'Metukah Tikatevoon "
"You should be written for a Good and Sweet Year"
