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!
That looks like my buddy Peter! (thirty years ago with big hair) :-)
ReplyDeleteAnd !Shana Tova to you too.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm sure you'll be rioting and protesting afterward... Oh wait...
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year!
Many thanks.
ReplyDeleteNope, no rioting or protesting after services, just a fine festive meal followed. Funny how that happens...