You are already familiar with the fact that there are NUMEROUS
days celebrating the New Year throughout the calendar year – and this coming
Friday is one of them.
The link below will allow you to view the rest of the
celebrations:
https://tohell-andback.blogspot.com/2016/02/happy-new-year-again-and-again-and-again.html
The New Year celebration this coming Friday is called Rosh
Hoshanah. Like several other New Year celebrations,
the exact date of the celebration varies from year to year, but is generally some
place between early and late September. In the case of Rosh Hoshana, the two-day
celebration begins on the first day of Tishrei, which is the
seventh month of the ecclesiastical year. In contrast to
the ecclesiastical year, where the first month Nisan, the Passover
month, marks Israel's exodus from Egypt, Rosh Hashanah marks the beginning of
the civil year, according to the teachings of Judaism, and is the traditional
anniversary of the creation of Adam and Eve, the first man and woman according to the Hebrew Bible, and
the inauguration of humanity's role in God's world. According to one secular
opinion, the holiday owes its timing to the beginning of the economic year in
Southwest Asia and Northeast Africa, marking the start
of the agricultural cycle.
Rosh
Hashanah customs include sounding the shofar (a
cleaned-out ram's horn), as prescribed in the Torah, following the
prescription of the Hebrew Bible to "raise a noise" on Yom Teruah. Its rabbinical
customs include attending synagogue services and reciting special liturgy about teshuva, as well as
enjoying festive meals. Eating symbolic foods is now a tradition, such as
apples dipped in honey, hoping to evoke a sweet new year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosh_Hashanah
When I lived in Evanston, I tried to get to every one of the 71
churches in town, but ran out of energy after about 60 of them. Because I
always worked on Friday evening, I was unable to attend services at mosques of
synagogues.
https://www.faithstreet.com/evanston-il
Since I grew up in a Christina household, I’ve read various
versions of the Bible on numerous occasions, and I also read the Koran, after I
received a couple of free copies in the mail.
The Bible, of course, was originally written in Hebrew,
Aramaic and Greek. The first person to translate it into English was John
Wycliffe. After his death (from a stroke) his corpse was
exhumed and burned and the ashes cast into the River Swift, which flows through Lutterworth, England.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wycliffe
The Koran is written in Arabaic, and was translated into English
as early as the 17th century, but most translations were done in the
20th.
The Jewish Bible is called the Talmud, and the earliest
versions date from the 2nd century. It is written in Mishnaic Hebrew and Jewish Babylonian
Aramaic and contains the teachings and opinions of thousands of rabbis (dating from
before the Common Era through to
the fifth century) on a variety of subjects, including halakha, Jewish ethics, philosophy, customs, history, and folklore, and many other topics. The Talmud is the basis for all
codes of Jewish law and is widely quoted in rabbinic literature.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmud
The
Talmud was translated in English by Michael Rodkinson in 1918. Although I took
the time to do a “book report” on the Koran (it was about 4000 words long) I no
longer have the energy to attempt to so the same thing with the Talmud.
https://sacred-texts.com/jud/talmud.htm
Since
I’m not Jewish, we have no plans to celebrate the New Year on Friday. Although you
CAN find recipes for matzo ball soup on line, I’ll take the easy way out and
buy a can or two of prepared versions at the store.
athbhliain faoi mhaise duit
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