In many Ashkenazi homes, kreplach are served on Rosh Hashanah, at the pre-fast meal before Yom Kippur, and on Hoshana Raba.

However, because of the Rosh Hashanah postponement rules ( see below ) Kislev may lose a day to have 29 days, and the year is called a short ( chaser ) year, or Marcheshvan may acquire an additional day to have 30 days, and the year is called a full ( maleh ) year.

( These three times, plus in some congregations the Aleinu prayer during the Musaf Amidah on Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah, are the only times in Jewish services when Jews engage in prostration, with the exception of some Yemenite Jews and talmedhei haRambam ( disciples of Maimonides ) who may prostrate themselves on other occasions during the year ).

Rosh (, " head " or " leader ") may refer to:

The Ba ' al T ' qiah shall abstain from anything that may cause ritual contamination for three days prior to Rosh Hashanah.

Though man ought to be penitent every day ( Mishna Avoth Chap 2, 10 ; Talmud Shabbath 153a ), the first ten days of every year are the acceptable time announced by the prophet ( Isaiah 55: 6 ): " Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near " ( Talmud Rosh Hashan 18a ; Mishneh Torah Teshuva 2: 6 ).

'" There is, in fact, a ritual for this that is supposed to take place the day before Rosh Hashana ( because one does not do such chores on a holy day ), known as Hatarat Nedarim ( Cancelling of Vows ), wherein the individual presents himself before a tribunal of three and recites a Hebrew formula, very different from that of Kol Nidrei, asking for annulment of every vow or pledge or prohibition that he swore " while I was awake or dreaming ", " whether they were matters relating to money, or to the body, or to the soul ".... And the tribunal responds by reciting three times, " May everything be permitted you, may everything be forgiven you, may everything be allowed you.

The Mishnah commences with an account of the four beginnings of the religious and the civil year ( 1: 1 ); it speaks of the four judgement-days of the pilgrim festivals and Rosh ha-Shanah ( 1: 2 ); of the six months in which the messengers of the Sanhedrin announce the month ( 1: 3 ); of the two months, the beginnings of which witnesses announce to the Sanhedrin even on the Sabbath ( 1: 4 ), and even if the moon is visible to every one ( 1: 5 ); Gamliel even sent on the Sabbath for forty pairs of witnesses from a distance ( 1: 6 ); when father and son ( who as relatives may otherwise not witness together ) behold the new moon they must set out for the beth din ( 1: 7 ), since they do not absolutely belong to those that are legally unfit for this purpose ( 1: 8 ).

The Mishnah treats also the laws of the shofar ( iii. 2 ); the horn of the cow may not be used ( iii. 2 ); the form of the trumpet for Rosh ha-Shanah, the fast-day, and Yobel is determined ( iii. 3-5 ); injuries to the shofar and the remedies are indicated ( iii. 6 ); in times of danger the people that pray assemble in pits and caves ( iii. 7 ); they pass the house of worship only on the outside while the trumpets sound ( iii. 7 ); they are exhorted to be firm by being reminded of Moses ' uplifted hands in the war with the Amalekites ( iii. 8 ).

According to the Talmud ( tractate Megillah 22b ), women are exempt from work on Rosh Chodesh, and Rashi, in commenting on this passage, delineates the activities from which they may refrain: spinning, weaving, and sewing — the skills that women contributed to the building of the Mishkan ( Tabernacle ).

This may be because originally the pious would fast for ten days during the season of repentance, and four days before Rosh Hashanah were added to compensate for the four of the Ten days of Repentance on which fasting is forbidden-the two days of Rosh Hashanah, Shabbat Shuvah, and the day preceding Yom Kippur-and, while the fasts have since been abandoned, the Selichot that accompanied them have been retained.

Only the person called to the third scroll reads the haftarah, though the haftarah itself may contain verses appropriate both to Rosh Hodesh and to Chanukah or the special Shabbat.

One of several notable exceptions may be the Tosafist commentary on Tractate Rosh Hashanah, where there seems to be an allusion to the age of creation according to a literal reading of Genesis.

One of those days may occur on a Shabbat as well, making that day of Rosh Hashanah on which Shabbat occurs stricter in observance, meaning the observances of Shabbat are followed than a Rosh Hashanah that occurs on any other day but Shabbat ( Saturday ).

Jews have two holiday seasons: the Spring Feasts of Pesach ( Passover ) and Shavuot ( Weeks, called Pentecost in Greek ); and the Fall Feasts of Rosh Hashanah ( Head of the Year ), Yom Kippur ( Day of Atonement ), Sukkot ( Tabernacles ), and Shemini Atzeret ( Eighth Day of Assembly ).

The calendar rules have been designed to ensure that Rosh Hashanah does not fall on a Sunday, Wednesday or Friday.

If the first day of a Yom Tov ( holy days which includes Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Passover, and Shavuot ) occurs during shiva, the shiva ends, regardless of the number of days that have already been observed.

) The shofar continues to announce the New Year, and the new moon ,, to introduce Shabbat, to carry out the commandment to sound it on Rosh Hashanah, and to mark the end of the day of fasting on Yom Kippur once the services have completed in the evening.

Most Kollels have a scholar as a Rosh Kollel who is the head of the Kollel.

The Lubavitcher chasidim have a tradition that the Hebrew letters that make up the word rebbe are also an acronym for " Rosh Bnei Yisroel ", meaning " a spiritual head of the Children of Israel ".

Paint by numbers have been published by Sanoma Uitgevers in the Netherlands, Puzzler Media ( formerly British European Associated Publishers ) in the UK and Nikui Rosh Puzzles in Israel.

The townspeople invited him to have the final word on who would lead the Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur prayer services.

Many Hasidic rebbes and Rosh yeshivas of major Orthodox yeshivas are not required to " prove " to their flocks that they do or do not hold formal semikhah because their reputations as Torah-scholars and sages is unquestioned and esteemed based on the recommendations of trusted sages, and the experiences and interactions that many knowledgeable Torah-observant Jews have with them, which thus gives practical testimony based on experience that these great rabbis are indeed worthy to be called as such.

The " good luck " traditions of eating black-eyed peas at Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, are recorded in the Babylonian Talmud ( compiled ~ 500 CE ), Horayot 12A: " Abaye 339 CE said, now that you have established that good-luck symbols avail, you should make it a habit to see qara ( bottle gourd ), rubiya ( black-eyed peas, Arabic lubiya ), kartei ( leeks ), silka ( either beets or spinach ), and tamrei ( dates ) on your table on the New Year.

Breslov Hasidim have the custom of going on a pilgrimage to the tomb of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov in Uman for Rosh Hashanah.

After returning from the Shnat program, bogrim have a two year commitment to the movement in which they lead the chanichim of the movement or take up various administrative roles ( tafkidim ), including Merakez ( head of the movement ), Rosh Hinukh ( head of education ), Mazkir ( secretary ) and Gizbar ( treasurer ).

Many have a custom to make sure to eat a special meal in honor of Rosh Chodesh, as the Code of Jewish Law suggests.

The " ten days of repentance " include Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and the days in between, during which time Jews should meditate on the subject of the holidays and ask for forgiveness from anyone they have wronged.

In keeping with the long-standing tradition of Modzitz, the Rebbe composed ten new niggunim for Rosh Hashana of 5767 and twelve new niggunim for 5768 ( corresponding to September 2006 and 2007 ), some of which have become popular among chareidi Jews in Israel.

Biblical scholars regard this ritual as an evolution from the simpler sin offering for the first day of the seventh month, given in the book of Ezekiel ; though the masoretic text renders this as the seventh day of the month, the Septuagint has ... first day of the seventh month, and scholars think that the sin offering on this day exchanged days with Rosh Hashanah, which in Ezekiel's day appears to have been celebrated on the tenth of the month.

" " And because of this, the whole House of Israel have accustomed themselves to give more " Tzedakah " ( Charity ), and to do more good deeds, and to engage in " Mitzvot ," from Rosh HaShanah through Yom HaKippurim more than, than the rest of the year.

To one follower who said he preferred to visit the Rebbe on the Shabbat after Rosh Hashana, when he would have more space to pray, eat and sleep, the Rebbe replied, " Whether you eat or don't eat ; whether you sleep or don't sleep ; whether you pray or don't pray ( i. e. with the proper concentration ); just make sure to be with me for Rosh Hashana, no matter what!

In fact it has been shown to be a forgery from the 18th century, and contains controversial decisions which contradict what the Rosh wrote in his ( genuine ) responsa.

Moshe Mordechai Epstein ( 1866-1934 ) was Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Knesseth Yisrael in Slabodka, Lithuania and is recognized as having been one of the leading Talmudists of the twentieth century.

From at least the time of Saadia Gaon ( 10th century ), it has been customary to study one chapter a week on each Shabbat between Passover and Shavuot ; today, the tractate is generally studied on each Shabbat of the summer, from Passover to Rosh Hashanah, the entire cycle repeating a few times with doubling of chapters at the end if there are not a perfect multiple of six weeks.

Throughout the history of Hebrew Theological College, its leadership has been shared by its Rosh Yeshiva and its Chief Executive Officer, formerly known as the President, currently known as the Chancellor.

From 1923 he served as the administrative director of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, and then after R. kharlap died in 1952 he became Rosh Yeshiva until his own death.

His astronomical studies of the revolutions of the moon enabled him to predict the beginning of the month (" Rosh Chodesh ") as it was determined in Palestine, and he claimed to be able to remove the necessity of celebrating double holy days in the Diaspora ( R. H. 20b ; comp.

Among well known ( generally non-kabbalist or anti-kabbalist ) Rabbis who rejected the idea of reincarnation are Saadia Gaon, David Kimhi, Hasdai Crescas, Yedayah Bedershi ( early 14th century ), Joseph Albo, Abraham ibn Daud, the Rosh and Leon de Modena.

* Rosh HaAyin, Israel ; since 2007.

The shofar or keren ( horn ) is the only temple instrument still being used today in the synagogue, and it is only used from Rosh Chodesh Elul through the end of Yom Kippur.

The Aleinu prayer first appeared in the manuscript of the Rosh Hashana liturgy by Rav.

He included it in the Rosh Hashana mussaf service as a prologue to the Kingship portion of the Amidah.

In this noble prayer are evinced profound religious feeling and exalted thought, as well as ability to use the Hebrew language in a natural, expressive, and classical manner ( Jerusalem Talmud Rosh Hashanah i. 57a ).

Steinsaltz is also Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Hesder Tekoa.

According to, Benjamin had ten sons: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.

In the context of the passage, they seem to equate to something like “ east and west .” There is a passage in Ezekiel, however, where God says to the prophet, " Set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him.

" 38: 2 Gog, in this instance, is the name of a person of the land of Magog, who is ruler (“ prince ”) over the regions of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.

The Rosh Yeshiva at the Canadian Yeshiva & Rabbinical School in Toronto is a Conservative rabbi, Roy Tanenbaum.

This annual judgment process begins on Rosh Hashanah and ends with Yom Kippur.

* Western Galilee, also known the " Northern Coastal Plain ", stretches from north of Haifa up to Rosh HaNikra on the Israel-Lebanon border.

Late in the 1934 season, he announced that he would not play on September 10, which was Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, or on September 19, the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur.

Fans grumbled, " Rosh Hashanah comes every year but the Tigers haven't won the pennant since 1909.

" Greenberg did considerable soul-searching, and discussed the matter with his rabbi ; finally he relented and agreed to play on Rosh Hashanah, but stuck with his decision not to play on Yom Kippur.

Dramatically, Greenberg hit two home runs in a 2 – 1 Tigers victory over Boston on Rosh Hashanah.

Rosh Hashanah, which means " the head of the year ", and is celebrated in the month of Tishrei, is " the new year for the counting of years.

stresses the importance in Israelite religious observance of the new month ( Hebrew:, Rosh Chodesh, " beginning of the month "): "... in your new moons, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt-offerings ..." Similarly in.

A shofar made from a ram's horn is traditionally blown in observance of Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the Jewish civic year.

On that day the formal New Year for the counting of years ( such as Shmita and Yovel ), Rosh Hashanah (" head of the year ") is observed.

By the time of the redaction of the Mishnah, Rosh Hashanah 1: 1 ( c. 200 CE ), jurists had identified four new-year dates:

Thus, adding 3760 before Rosh Hashanah or 3761 after to a Julian or Gregorian year number after 1 CE will yield the Hebrew year.