Posts Tagged: Rosh Hashanah meaning
A Rosh Hashanah Guide for the Perplexed — 2024
The evening of October 2, 2024, will launch the Jewish New Year of 5784. Rosh Hashanah underscores the fallibility of human beings, and the potential...
On High Holidays, We Are Judged by Totality of Our Characters
You have no doubt heard of the psychiatric condition known as multiple personality disorder. In 1994, this condition was renamed "dissociative identity disorder"-- or DID --...
A Rosh Hashanah Guide for the Perplexed
Here are some facts about Rosh Hashanah: 1. The conventional meaning of the two Hebrew words Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is the beginning (Rosh...
Rosh Hashanah: Fairy Tales and Humor
Yes, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are serious days. They require us to place God at the center of our lives and then to repent...
How to Make Rosh Hashanah Truly Meaningful for Non-Religious Jews
Most people think of Rosh Hashanah as "the Jewish Near Year." But this phrase is meaningless, which might help explain why 65% of Jews don't even go...
The Rosh Hashanah Guide for the Perplexed, 2014
Happy, healthy, challenging, and rewarding new year! 1. Rosh Hashanah is a universal, stock-taking, renewal, and hopeful holiday, celebrated on the 6th"Ž day of The Creation, which produced the first human being,...
Rosh Hashanah Guide for the Perplexed, 2013
1. The Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah - "the beginning of the year") is compatible with the agricultural calendar. It commences with the planting of seeds...
