Shalom my fellow Jewish Pandas! It's Rosh Hashana this week. How do you celebrate the Jewish New Year?
Wow, soon the year 5784 starts... man... how time flies.
How do you celebrate the new year? Do you have any fun/lame/weird traditions in your family or are you celebrating the old-fashioned dippin' the apple way? Maybe you don't celebrate at all and it's just another day for you? Let me know it!
I'm also very excited to see how many heebs are around, I'm sure we're enough for a Panda-minyan.
שנה טובה ומתוקה
Happy New Year!
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Heck I don't care what day it is I'M GETTING THOSE HONEY APPLES.
Honestly I'm not that good at preparing for holidays, so I usually just do the traditional way.
Seeing my dad and avoiding store bought honey cake like the plague.
I didn't know this was a thing! Can one of you who celebrate this holiday tell me more about it? what are the traditions around it? Would love to learn more
So you know how January 1st is New Years Day? The reason is because we use the solar calendar to track the passage of time. Well, the Jewish calendar uses the Lunar system, so we base the passage of time over the moon, therefore it's the year 5784. During the holiday, the traditions include prayer services using a special prayer book called the "machzor", the blowing of the "shofar", which is a ram's horn and eating apples and challah dipped in honey. The Honey signifies the desire for a sweet new year. Rosh Hashana also marks the beginning of the "high holy days", which is the period of time when the holiest of the Jewish holidays occur: The Jewish new year, the day of repentance (Yom Kippur) and Succot , the holiday of booths.
I'm not Jewish, but my parents are going to our family friend's place for Rosh Hashana. If it's anything like when we went for Passover, there will be good food, a prayer and some explanation about the traditions.
