High Holy Days
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4 Things Jews Do On Rosh Hashanah
The Jewish new year is not just a stereotypical December 31 gathering -- with champagne, sparkling grape juice, streamers, confetti -- and otherwise generally a good time to stay off the roads and stay home. It is a much more solemn
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Above the Arctic Circle, a Cold War Rosh Hashana
It was early September 1956, the High Holidays were approaching, and Elihu Schimmel was in the Cold War's coldest theater.
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An Overview of the High Holy Days
Imagine the High Holy Days as the most profound kind of homecoming dance. The invitation doesn’t arrive on embossed card stock but whispers on the shofar’s cry, echoing through the chambers of the heart: Come back. Return. Remember who
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Because It's Rosh Hashanah!
David Sirull, a rabbi at the Adas Yeshurun Synagogue in Augusta, Georgia made a music video about Rosh Hashanah that has gone viral on YouTube.
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Benji Lovitt Presents "Rosh Hashanah: Apples and What???"
Some people may try to be creative with the traditional Rosh Hashanah foods, but nothing quite replaces the perfect combination of apples and honey this time of year.
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Blow the Trumpet in Zion
Joel 2: Blow the Trumpet in Zion
Sermon by Messianic Rabbi Jeff Zaremsky
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Days of Awe
During the time of Rosh Hashanah, many Jews and Christians alike flock to the Western Wall for a time of prayer, reflection, and for those who believe, a beautiful time of anticipating the Messiah’s return
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Elul - A Season for Reflection
Each year, as summer wanes and the air begins to cool, a quiet, sacred season arrives: Elul. Unlike the fanfare of holidays, Elul passes almost unnoticed by the world, yet it carries a powerful spiritual invitation. It calls us to
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Feast of Trumpets
The Feast of Trumpets is the first of the fall feasts. It begins on the first day of the seventh month on the Hebrew calendar known as Tishri. It was a holy convocation, a ceremonial Sabbath; no work was to be done.
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Genesis 22: Peace at Beersheba with Avimelech
In Genesis chapter 20 we read about Abraham lying to Avimelech regarding Sarah. Then in chapter 21 Avimelech comes back to Abraham, this time with the commander of his army to call Abraham out for his sin and to get an assurance from
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L'Shana Tova
L'Shana Tova
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L'Shana Tova Tikatavu
May you be inscribed (in the Book of Life) for a good year.
Those words are the translation of the Hebrew in the title. Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year and literally means “head of the year.”
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On the Days of Awe
On the Days of Awe, the synagogue swells with the haunting refrain: Avinu Malkeinu. Over and over, the congregation cries, Our Father, our King. It is a prayer that has been whispered in fear, shouted in defiance, and wept through
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Parashat Sukkot
Lev. 22:26-23:44.
Num. 29:12-16.
Zech. 14:1-21.
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Parashat Yom Kippur
Yom Kippur is described in Leviticus 16. This entire chapter describes how the ordinance of the Day of Atonement was to be carried out in the sanctuary and later in the temple of Jerusalem. That's why the sanctuary and its services are
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Rosh Hashanah - Judgment
Are you prepared for the judgement? What if we didn't have the Bible to give us the truth that teaches us how to prepare?
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Significance of the Four Species
Second only to the sukkah as prominent symbols of this feast of Sukkot are the Arba'at Ha-minim, the four species, which are gathered in keeping with the commandment found in Leviticus 23:40.
Making up "the four species" are
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Simchat Torah
Simchat Torah.
Sermon by Messianic Rabbi Jeff Zaremsky. -
Sitting Pretty. Dry Bones
Dry Bones Sukkot
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Six 13 - Starting Over
Are you looking for some uplifting holiday music for Rosh Hashanah? You may really enjoy this music video by Six13, “Starting Over (a song for Rosh Hashanah)”. If you are not familiar with Rosh Hashanah, it is when Jewish people
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