Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year. We get together for a festive meal with sweet symbolic foods such as apples dipped in honey, and we are filled with hopes for a sweet new year. The next morning, the shofar’s blasts wake us from our day-to-day indifference.
ROSH HASANAH TRADITIONS
Taste honey for a sweet new year
We dip apples in honey as part of the New Year ceremony to make the new year as sweet as possible.
Send New Year cards
We reach out to friends and family to report on the past year, reconcile past wrongs, and renew our commitments to one another.
Cast away sins (Tashlich)
We clean out our pockets, throwing our messy crumbs to the wind or a body of water in preparation for a new year with a clearer conscience.
SAY L’SHANAH TOVA
Greet families and friends with Happy New Year, L’Shanah Tova, שנה טובה
Rosh Hashanah culminates with Yom Kippur. During the ten days between, we say to those who celebrate: Gmar Hatima Tova
