Volume 10 , Issue 2

Hebrew History New Year

"Hi, Linda (and all Editors-in-Chief)! Thank you for your e-zine. Great as always! Steve's article on the history of New Year celebrations was fascinating. I would add that Hebrew history (ancient to present) allows for three New Year celebrations: the secular on 1 January, Rosh Hashanah (head of the year) on 1 Tishri (in late summer), and that designated as the "beginning of months" by G-d on 1 Nisan (Exodus: 12:1-2). Nisan is the month in which the Israelites were guided through the Red Sea to escape their Egyptian slavemasters, and contains Passover as the remembrance thereof.

Rosh Hashanah is old but much more recent. It introduces the ten High Holy Days culminating in Yom Kippur, the most solemn holiday -? the day of atonement. It is customary to offer apples and honey on Rosh Hashanah, symbolic of a sweet year to come. Happy new year and many more!!!" -- Joel
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