“When is Rosh Hashanah this year?”
• With the calendar most of us know
(the Gregorian calendar), a new month
starts every 30 or 31 days, with the
exception of February.
• With the Gregorian calendar, the new
year always starts on January 1;
•with the lunar calendar -- because
its months start on the day of the new
moon -- the start of the New Year
changes from year to year.
Rosh Hashanah
On what date we celebrated RH this year?
And last year? Why?
The Jewish New Year Festival is called
Rosh Hashanah. The date varies each
year (on the Gregorian calendar). It is
always on 1,2 of Tishrei.
The New Year is on the first two days of
the first month (of the Jewish calendar).
this was done so that the farmers could
visit Jerusalem before the winter rains
came. The first ten days of this month
are the holiest.
The Jewish calendar is lunisolar in nature.
What lunisolar means?
•The Jewish calendar is based on
three astronomical phenomena:
the rotation of the Earth about its
axis (a day);
•Revolution of the moon about the
The revolution of the Earth
Earth (a month); On average, the moon
around the sun (a year).
revolves around the Earth in about 29½
days.
•The Earth revolves around the sun
in about 365¼ days, that is, about
12.4 lunar months.
The lunar calendar
The moon progresses through its four
phases -- new moon, first quarter, full
moon, and last quarter -- during each
cycle. In places where people follow the
lunar calendar, a new month starts with
each new moon; so, a new month starts
every 29 or 30 days.
On Rosh Hashanah, we celebrate
The birth of a new moon (Molad)
And a new year.
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Celebration of Rosh Hashanah
Hearing the sounding of
the shofar in the
Tefila
Sending cards to family
Special food
And friends, wishing
A good and sweet year.
•People around the world celebrate the start of a new year in
different ways.
•People around the world celebrate the start of a new year in
different time.
How do people mark the beginning of the year?
What calendar, do they use?
What kind of religious expression, if any?
What are the similarities and differences?