Rosh Hashanah: Why are the Jews celebrating the coming of the year 5783 this Sunday?

Shana Tova Umetuka (happy and sweet year): With these three words, the Jews celebrate this Sunday The advent of the year 5783, The date when, according to Hebrew tradition, God created the world in six days to rest in seven days.

religious holidays It starts on a Sunday night and ends with a Tuesday sunset to give way to a conference in which Jews from all over the world pledged to question their conscience and to correct the mistakes made in the past year. This is a period of repentance and contemplation that lasts 10 days and results in doomsday. Yom Kippur, the blessed day of forgiveness, Wednesday afternoon, October 5th.

Each one Rosh Hashanah (New Year) is an opportunity to evolve, be reborn and change the course of life, The Jews say as they complete their preparations for this holiday, where women light candles in their homes. Yom Tov while reading blessings to welcome this 5783. Right now family and friends wish each other Leshanah Tova Tikatev Vetechatem (for a good year).

The Hebrew calendar starts counting the years from the creation of the world 5783 years ago according to the Jews. Before the world we live in According to some commentators of this tradition, there were others who disappeared.

And in the background on these solemn days in the synagogues, shofar, same as advertised jerusalem temple Uriel Macías, co-author with Elena Romero, describes events such as a king’s coronation. ‘Jews of Europe. 2000 years legacy (Mother). A type of trumpet made with a cleat and its sound the central and most important rule of the festival and He invites people to awaken their conscience in order to facilitate repentance and to return to the path pointed by Allah.

Moshe Bendahan, chief rabbi of the Madrid Jewish community, plays the sofhar in the synagogue.


During Rosh Hashanah, Jewish tables are filled with symbolic food. sweetness, abundance and abundance. this To pull (braided bread) is rubbed into honey and on the first night a piece of apple is eaten and bathed in this sweet liquid of bees. Fish or ram head, date, leek, chard, pomegranate, carrot or pumpkin make-up the diet of these days, which is expected to start a year make it “sweet as honey”.

The liturgical year begins with these two “solemn days” dedicated to repentance and penance. (tesuba) usually in September and sometimes at the beginning of October, According to the Hebrew calendar, which operates at a different pace than the Gregorian calendar, the year is solar and usually consists of 12 months, as the months begin with a new moon and last 29 or 30 days. “to fix difference between solar years A year with (365.25 days) and 12 lunar months (354 days), certain leap years are 13 instead of 12 months,” explains Macías.

Noting that during the Rosh Hashanah there is always a halo of hope to avoid conviction, Uriel Macías adds in his book, “God judges the actions of people who will be rewarded or punished in the coming year according to their decisions.” since that time Yom Kippur If he repent and devote himself to prayer, it is possible to escape punishment.

Literally Yom Kippur The holiest holiday in the Jewish calendar and with it the ten days of penance that began with Rosh Hashanah ends. It is a fasting day reserved for asking forgiveness from Allah and repairing the damage caused. Religious services in the synagogue begin with prayer Cal nid Cal nid ask for a penalty for unfulfilled vows and closes again with the perfect voice of sofhar, the sign of God. Torah or the Hebrew scriptures.

Source: Informacion

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