Rosh Hashanah
Rosh Hashanah ("Head of the Year", literally), is the Jewish New Year. It 'the first High Holidays or Yamim Noraim ("Days of Awe"), spent ten days before Yom Kippur. Rosh Hashanah is observed the first two days of Tishrei, the seventh month of the Jewish calendar. It 'was described in the Torah as יום תרועה (Yom Teru'ah day by the sound [shofar]).
Rosh Hashanah marks the beginning of a new year in the Hebrew calendar (one of four "new year" observances that define various legal "years" for different purposes, as explained in the Mishna and the Talmud). This is the new year for people, animals and legal contracts. The Mishnah also sets this day aside as the new year for calculating calendar years and sabbatical (shmita) and Jubilee (Yovel) years. Jews believe Rosh Hashanah is either figuratively or literally the creation of the world or the universe. But according to one view in the Talmud, namely R. Eleazar, Rosh Hashana recall the creation of man, which means that five days earlier, on 25 Elul, the first day of creation of the universe.
Rosh Hashanah marks the beginning of a new year in the Hebrew calendar (one of four "new year" observances that define various legal "years" for different purposes, as explained in the Mishna and the Talmud). This is the new year for people, animals and legal contracts. The Mishnah also sets this day aside as the new year for calculating calendar years and sabbatical (shmita) and Jubilee (Yovel) years. Jews believe Rosh Hashanah is either figuratively or literally the creation of the world or the universe. But according to one view in the Talmud, namely R. Eleazar, Rosh Hashana recall the creation of man, which means that five days earlier, on 25 Elul, the first day of creation of the universe.
