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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Rosh Hashanah (Hebrew: רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה, Rōʾš hašŠānā, lit. 'head of the year') is the New Year in Judaism. The biblical name for this holiday is Yom...
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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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Hebrew calendar (redirect from Rosh Hashanah postponement rules)
Hebrew-English Bible, Exodus 12:2 Mishnah Rosh Hashanah 1:7 Mishnah Rosh Hashanah 2:6–8 Mishnah Rosh Hashanah 2.2 Babylonian Talmud Betzah 4b Stern 2001, pp. 162ff...
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Chabad.org. Retrieved July 11, 2013. Babylonian Talmud (BT) Rosh Hashanah 16a Jerusalem Talmud Rosh Hashanah 1:2 See, for example, the liturgical poem Unetanneh...
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campaign of destruction against it. On the New Year, Rosh Hashanah (September 9, 1553) the copies of the Talmud confiscated in compliance with a decree of the...
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the new moon, referred to as the molad, or "birth". Rosh Chodesh Tishrei (which is also Rosh Hashanah) is never announced, although according to the fixed...
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The Seder for the night of Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish tradition of eating a festive meal composed of symbolic foods, reciting psalms, and singing zmirot...
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Shofar (category Rosh Hashanah)
services on Rosh Hashanah and at the end of Yom Kippur; it is also blown every weekday morning in the month of Elul running up to Rosh Hashanah. Shofars...
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Ezekiel Rosh, a son of Benjamin in the Book of Genesis "The Rosh", Rabbi Asher ben Jehiel (1250–1328) a prominent Talmudic scholar Lea Rosh, German television...
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Tevuna commentaries on tractates Berakhot through Rosh Hashanah (roughly 50% of the Jerusalem Talmud), which was published from his manuscript by the Mutzal...
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Mussaf (section Rosh Hashanah)
Amidah, and one in the middle in regards to the particular day. But on Rosh Hashanah, the Amidah contains nine blessings. The three middle blessings are...
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accomplishments and setting yearly intentions. Alongside the related holiday of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur is one of the two components of the High Holy Days of Judaism...
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Moed (redirect from Shabbat (talmud))
Tractate in this Order which details the laws of that respective festival. (e.g. they would learn Tractate Rosh Hashanah on the holiday of Rosh Hashanah)....
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Shofar blowing (category Rosh Hashanah)
pronunciation: [t(e)kiˈ(ʔ)at ʃoˈfaʁ]) is a ritual performed by Jews on Rosh Hashanah. The shofar is a musical horn, typically made of a ram's horn. Jewish...
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Shiva (Judaism) (section Rosh Hashanah)
Rosh Hashanah, any days in observance of shiva before the start will equate to seven days when the holiday begins. Yom Kippur following Rosh Hashanah...
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'Tractate Scroll') is a tractate in Seder Moed of the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds. It deals with laws and stories relating to Purim, a Jewish holiday originating...
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Tu BiShvat (section Talmud)
occurring on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat. It is also called Rosh HaShanah La'Ilanot (ראש השנה לאילנות), literally "New Year of the Trees". In...
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neither Biblical nor Talmudic. Professor Ismar Elbogen avers that it was a medieval usage, reflecting a change in the mood of Rosh Hashanah from a predominantly...
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The Babylonian Talmud has Gemara—rabbinical analysis of and commentary on the Mishnah—on thirty-seven masekhtot. The Jerusalem Talmud (Yerushalmi) has...
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Jewish prayer (section Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur)
Sephardic congregations, it occurs only on Pesach, Shavuot, Sukkot, Rosh Hashanah, and Yom Kippur in Ashkenazic (and some Sephardic communities) congregations...
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Emor (section Rosh Hashanah)
Rosh Hashanah 9b (1:3). Babylonian Talmud Rosh Hashanah 11a. Babylonian Talmud Rosh Hashanah 16a. Mishnah Rosh Hashanah 3:3. Mishnah Rosh Hashanah 3:5...
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proleptic calendar date 6 October 3761 BCE. The new year begins at Rosh Hashanah, in Tishrei. Anno mundi 5785 (meaning the 5,785th year since the creation...
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destined for Heaven and the world to come. According to the Talmud, it is opened on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, as is its analog for the wicked, the...
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period of the Rishonim. The Babylonian Talmud uses a different expression - "the ten days between Rosh HaShanah and Yom HaKippurim" - while among Geonim...
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Jewish eschatology (section Talmud)
life to all". In Judaism, the day of judgment happens every year on Rosh Hashanah; therefore, the belief in a last day of judgment for all mankind is...
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Pinechas (parashah) (section Rosh Hashanah)
Hashanah 1:1–2:18; Jerusalem Talmud Rosh Hashanah 1a–27a; Babylonian Talmud Rosh Hashanah 2a–35a. Mishnah Rosh Hashanah 1:2; Babylonian Talmud Rosh Hashanah...
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is the reason given by most halachic authorities, based on the Talmud, Rosh Hashanah 20b and Sukkah 43b. Maimonides (Mishneh Torah, Kiddush Hachodesh...
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Unetanneh Tokef (category Rosh Hashanah)
speak of the awesomeness ") is a piyyut that has been a part of the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur liturgy in some traditions of rabbinical Judaism for...
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