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• Rosh Hashanah


  The Jewish New Year festival
• Rosh Hashanah


  • Lasts two days
  • Commemorates the creation of the world
• Rosh


  Means 'head' and refers to the direction the new year will take
• Rosh Hashanah


  A time when God judges all humanity
• Rosh Hashanah


  God considers a person's good and bad deeds over the last year and decides what the next year will be like for them
• Rosh Hashanah


  Linked closely to judgment and urges us to repent of our past sins
• Rosh Hashanah


  God decides on the first day of the year who will be forgiven
• Rosh Hashanah


  A chance for Jews to ask questions about their actions and life throughout the year
• Rosh Hashanah


  Followed ten days later by Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement)
• Rosh Hashanah


  Jews believe that on Rosh Hashanah, God judges people for their past deeds and writes this down in a book, which is then sealed on Yom Kippur
• Rosh Hashanah


  Jews hope that they and their loved ones will be written in the Book of Life
• How to Celebrate Rosh Hashanah


  1. Occurs in September or October

  2. Time for Jews to reflect on their year, including their good deeds and their bad deeds

  3. Two days of Rosh Hashanah usher in the Ten Days of Repentance which end with Yom Kippur

  4. Special prayers called Selichot are added to the ritual one week before

  5. Special services held at synagogue on the eve of Rosh Hashanah

  6. Shofar (horn) blown and special fruits bought

  7. Jews greet each other by saying 'May you be written down for a good year'

  8. Slices of apple dipped in honey and a circular challah loaf eaten

  9. Shofar blown 100 times in the morning service

  10. Tashlich ceremony where sins are cast out and people ask for God's forgiveness
• On Rosh Hashanah, God writes names into one of three books: The Book of Life, for those who are wholly good; The Book of Death, for the truly evil; and an intermediate book
• Selichot


  Prayers added to the ritual
• Special services


  Held at synagogue on the eve of Rosh Hashanah
• Shofar


  Horn that will be blown
• Special fruits


  Bought by Jews
• Greeting


  May you be written down for a good year
• Apple dipped in honey


  Eaten as a symbol of the cycle of the year
• Circular challah loaf


  Eaten as a symbol of the cycle of the year
• Morning service


  Shofar blown 100 times to symbolise a call for repentance
• Tashlich ceremony


  Sins cast out (or 'thrown away') and people ask for God's forgiveness
• Tashlich ceremony


  Pray at a running stream and cast crumbs into the water as we hope to cast our sins away
• Book of Life


  For those who are wholly good
• Book of Death


  For the truly evil
• Intermediate book


  Where most people's names are written
• Actions during the festival

  Charity work or anything to make up for harm caused over the past year
• 10 days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur


  Jews consider their past deeds
• Forgiveness from God

  Requires seeking forgiveness from others
• Apples dipped in honey


  Eaten to represent the hope of a sweet new year
• Apples


  Believed to have healing powers, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible
• Time spent in the synagogue


  During Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur as they are the most important festivals in the Jewish year
• Rosh Hashanah


  The Jewish New Year festival
• Rosh Hashanah


  • Lasts two days
  • Commemorates the creation of the world
• 'Rosh'


  Means 'head' and refers to the direction the new year will take
• Judaism teaches that Rosh Hashanah is a time when God judges all humanity