Saturday, February 22, 2014

ROSH HOSHANNAH AS THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE CREATION OF ADAM AND EVE?

My wife found this for me.

Maybe we should do a joint blog.  She has some wilder thoughts than I do on a lot of stuff - if that is possible....  We definitely are carved out of the same block of wood in so many ways - and then we can be so totally different at times in our thinking.

Here it is:

Rosh Hashanah (Hebrew: ראש השנה‎, literally "head [of] the year"), is the Jewish New Year although the real name for this Feast of the Lord is called Yom Teruah (Hebrew: יום תרועה‎, literally "day [of] shouting/raising a noise") or the Feast of Trumpets according to the correct biblical calendar of the 1st and 2nd temple period, not Rosh Hashanah. It is the first of the High Holy Days or Yamim Nora'im ("Days of Awe") which usually occur in the early autumn of the Northern Hemisphere. Rosh Hashanah is a two-day celebration, which begins on the first day of Tishrei. The day is believed to be the anniversary of the creation of Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, and their first actions toward the realization of mankind's role in God's world. Rosh Hashanah customs include sounding the shofar (a hollowed-out ram's horn) and eating symbolic foods such as apples dipped in honey to evoke a "sweet new year".




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