Monday, September 17, 2012

Happy Rosh Hashanah 5773

Happy Rosh Hashanah 2012, the Jewish New Year 5773.

The first day of the Jewish New Year begins tomorrow.

Unlike a typical New Year celebrations, it is less a boisterous celebration and more a somber and introspective, one where repentance for wrongdoing in the past year is sought in prayer and good deeds.

But it's also a happy occasion, marked by eating apples dipped in honey to mark the hopes of having a sweet year to come.

One of the most distinctive acts of Rosh Hashanah is the blowing of the Shofar:

Shana Tova Umetukah (A Good and Sweet Year) to all of my readers!

4 comments:

NotClauswitz said...

That looks like my buddy Peter! (thirty years ago with big hair) :-)

NotClauswitz said...

And !Shana Tova to you too.

ProudHillbilly said...

And I'm sure you'll be rioting and protesting afterward... Oh wait...

Happy New Year!

Aaron said...

Many thanks.

Nope, no rioting or protesting after services, just a fine festive meal followed. Funny how that happens...