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    The Rosh Hashana kibbutz (Hebrew: קיבוץ; plural: kibbutzim: קיבוצים, "gathering" or "ingathering") is a large prayer assemblage of Breslover Hasidim held...
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    Rosh Hashanah (Hebrew: רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה‎, Rōʾš hašŠānā, literally 'head of the year') is the New Year in Judaism. The biblical name for this holiday is...
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  • Rosh Hashanah L'Ma'sar Behemah (Hebrew: ראש השנה למעשר בהמה "New Year for Tithing Animals") or Rosh Hashanah LaBehemah (Hebrew: ראש השנה לבהמה "New Year...
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  • (tractate), a tractate of mishnah Rosh Hashana kibbutz, a large prayer assemblage of Breslover Hasidim held on Rosh Hashanah Christian observances of...
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    Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur together constitute the High Holy Days. The Unetanneh Tokef prayer, recited by Ashkenazim and Italian-rite Jews on Rosh Hashanah...
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    Shofar (category Rosh Hashanah)
    new moon and the Jubilee year. The first day of Tishrei (now known as Rosh Hashana) is termed a "memorial of blowing", or "day of blowing", the shofar....
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    Rosh Hashanah (Hebrew: רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה) is the name of a text of Jewish law originating in the Mishnah which formed the basis of tractates in both the...
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    they are not all scrupulous about being with me for Rosh Hashana. No one should be missing! Rosh Hashana is my whole mission. During his lifetime, hundreds...
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    Shofar blowing (category Rosh Hashanah)
    tekiah in a set of 30, and the last tekiah blown overall on a day of Rosh Hashana, to be extended in length, called a tekiah gedolah ("great tekiah")....
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    Nisan) is described in the Torah as falling "in the first month", while Rosh Hashana (which begins on 1 Tishrei) is described as falling "in the seventh month"...
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    In Judaism, Rosh Chodesh or Rosh Hodesh (ראש חודש‎; trans. Beginning of the Month; lit. Head of the Month) is a minor holiday observed at the beginning...
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    men to visit the Rebbe's grave for Rosh Hashana. In 1989, over 1,000 Hasidic Jews gathered in Uman for Rosh Hashana 1989. In 1990, 2,000 attended. In 2008...
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  • congregation is already anticipating a return to normal life. On Day One of Rosh Hashana, the reading is the story of the birth of Isaac, the exile of Hagar and...
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    Rabbah is known as the last of the Days of Judgment, which begin on Rosh Hashana. The Zohar says that while the judgment for the new year is sealed on...
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    33:13 Talmud Rosh Hashana 17b; see also Midrash Tehillim 93:6 Shadal, Exodus 34:6 Lekach Tov ad loc.; Rabbeinu Tam, in Tosafot Rosh Hashana 17b, s.v. "Shelosh-'Esreh...
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    goes by 1 Tishrei. The first ten days of Tishrei (from the beginning of Rosh Hashana until the end of Yom Kippur) are known as the Ten Days of Repentance...
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  • ritual intended for Rosh Hashana. It is believed that Kol Nidrei was added to the liturgy of Yom Kippur, ten days after Rosh Hashana, because that service...
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    begin on the Monday eight days before. If Rosh Hashana falls on Thursday, they begin the previous Thursday. If Rosh Hashanah falls on Shabbat, they begin...
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    Sternhartz instituted an annual pilgrimage to his gravesite on Rosh Hashana, called the Rosh Hashana kibbutz, which drew thousands of Hasidim until 1917, when...
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  • 3rd Ed. 2001 Flavius Josephus. "9". Antiquities of the Jews. Vol. X. Rosh Hashana 18b Radak on Jeremiah 41:1 "אנציקלופדיה יהודית דעת - גדליה בן אחיקם"...
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  • דוד מלך ישראל - יפה ירקוני - שירונט". Babylonian Talmud Rosh Hashana 25a Rashi on Rosh Hashana 25a R. Bachya, Genesis 38:30 David Melech Yisrael; country...
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    that four men stabbed an Arab worker on his way to work at a supermarket in Rosh HaAyin. In Jaffa, a mosque was torched as police looked on. Attempts were...
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    Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, take on a solemn tone as befits these days. Traditional solemn tunes are used in the prayers. The musaf service on Rosh Hashana...
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    dough. Some have the custom of continuing to eat circular challah from Rosh Hashana through the holiday of Sukkot. In the Maghreb (Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria)...
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  • Unetanneh Tokef (category Rosh Hashanah)
    And vatifkod nefesh kol chai, for this had been decreed for him on Rosh haShana. So the whole poem [was a personal response to his experience]. When...
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    meal since the 13th century. At the beginning of the evening meals of Rosh Hashana, it is traditional to eat foods symbolic of a good year and to recite...
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    Tashlikh (category Rosh Hashanah)
    customary Jewish atonement ritual performed during the High Holy Days on Rosh Hashanah. In some Judaeo-Spanish-speaking communities the practice is referred...
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    during the meal of the first and/or second night of the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashana. In Yemen, a small amount of Oud Al Hilba (عود الحلبة), which appears...
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  • this country and I could gamble with my life, I would stake my life on Rosh Hashana 88." Whisenant, Edgar C. (1988). 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in...
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    Teiglach (category Rosh Hashanah foods)
    in a honeyed syrup. They are a traditional Ashkenazi Jewish treat for Rosh Hashana, Sukkot, Simchat Torah, and Purim. Teiglach date back to the times of...
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