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How to Get into the High Holidays State of Mind
It's a challenge and necessity, especially during this pandemic, to set boundaries between work time and family or personal time, between home office and home. How do we do that, emotionally?
Shaping Our World through Play: Make Your Own Playdough
This Rosh HaShanah, we all need to find new and different ways to connect with the High Holidays and a playdough date might be just right for you and your family.
10 Cozy, Cinnamon-Centric Recipes with a Jewish Twist
What’s your autumn flavor of choice? Is it spiced pumpkin, or maybe seasonal apples? How about cozy cinnamon? Here are 10 Jewishly inspired, easy to make, tried-and-true recipes featuring cinnamon that you’re going to love.
Hear Their Cries: This Year, May We Listen to Those Who Cry Out
Rosh HaShanah – the “head of the year” – celebrates the beginning of a new year and officially starts aseret y’mei t’shvuah, 10 days of return and repentance. It is a time of serious reflection and introspection about our lives (and about life itself); a time to ask for forgiveness for missing the mark in our actions with others, ourselves, and the Divine.
High Holidays
Hebrew Spelling
יָמִים נוֹרָאִים
Alternate Spelling
High Holy Days, the Holidays, the Holy Days
Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur
Yom HaDin
Hebrew Spelling
יוֹם הַדִּין
Alternate Spelling
Yom Ha-Din, Yom ha-Din
"Day of Judgement;" alternate name for Rosh HaShanah
Yom T'ruah
Hebrew Spelling
יוֹם תְּרוּעָה
"Day of Shofar Blowing;" alternate name for Rosh HaShanah.
Tishrei
Hebrew Spelling
תִּשְׁרֵי
Seventh month on the Hebrew calendar; Rosh HaShanah falls on the first day of this month.
Akeidah
Hebrew Spelling
עֲקֵדָה
Alternate Spelling
Akedah
"Binding." The story in Genesis of the near-sacrifice of Isaac, Abraham’s son, which is read on Rosh HaShanah.
L’Shanah Tovah Tikateivu
Hebrew Spelling
לְשָׁנָה טוֹבָה תִּכָּתֵבוּ
Alternate Spelling
L’shanah tovah tikateivu
"May you be inscribed [in the Book of Life] for a good year" is a greeting offered on Rosh HaShanah.