October 03, 2005
Shana Tova
Happy New Year! It's now 5766 (or will be after sunset tonight)
Listen to the shofar (via TorahTots) : Tekiah, a 3 second sustained note; Shevarim, three 1-second notes rising in tone; and Teruah, a series of short, staccato notes extending over a period of about 3 seconds.
S made yummy honey cakes yesterday while I was at work, and we stocked up on apples and honey (for a sweet New Year). We had beet soup for dinner last night (apparently, "Beets are called "Salka" in Aramaic, and in Hebrew, that word is related to removal. We recite, "May our enemies be removed." Notice we don't say destroy - we just want them to go away, elsewhere, bye-bye.") and pomegranates for brunch on Saturday (something about there being 613 commandments and each individual pomegranate supposedly has 613 seeds) I'd still like to find a round challah. We even had fish for dinner (though S kindly cut the head off of mine -- you're supposed to each from the head to the tail or something). Rosh Hashana means, literally, "head of the year" (We covered the word "rosh" in my beginner Hebrew class yesterday)
Shana Tova!
(a great collection of Rosh HaShana web sites)
Posted by Emily at October 3, 2005 09:48 AM