Sunday is the start of Rosh Hashanah, also known as the Jewish New Year.
The millennia-old holiday is an occasion for reflection and is often marked by prayer, symbolic foods, and the blowing of a traditional horn called a shofar. Here’s what you need to know about the history and meaning of Rosh Hashanah. 1. The holiday has been celebrated for over a thousand years Rosh Hashanah has its roots in the Talmud, although it isn’t entirely clear when the holiday was first celebrated.
This is symbolized by one of Rosh Hashanah’s most iconic traditions, taschlich, in which participants symbolically cast off their sins by throwing morsels of bread into a body of running water. There are 14.8 million Jewish people around the world, and practices associated with Rosh Hashanah vary even within individual communities. People usually celebrate Rosh Hashanah by attending synagogue and refraining from work – including schoolwork – and sometimes the use of electronics.
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