When will the Jewish New Year be celebrated in 2017? Rosh Hashanah in 2017 is celebrated on Thursday, September 21. And the celebration of the new year begins on September 20 and lasts until September 22. Jews live and celebrate holidays not in the Gregorian, but in the lunar calendar, so Rosh Hashanah in the coming year will mark the offensive of 5778. Rosh Hashanah is celebrated on the first and second day of the month Tishrei is a Jewish month that begins at the full moon. Rosh Hashanah is the symbol of God's creation of the world, or, more precisely, the sixth day, when our God created the first man of Adam. Rosh Hashanah symbolizes the beginning of the new year and the end of the year that is coming to an end. For a long time it was believed that on Rosh Hashanah the Lord wrote down in the Book of Life the central events that should happen to people next year. It is on the eve of the Jewish New Year that the destiny of mankind is predetermined for the year ahead. One of the main traditions of the Jews for the new year is the pilgrimage to Uman, a small town in the Cherkasy region of Ukraine. Every year, thousands of Jews come to Rosh Hashanah to visit the grave of tsadik Nachman. It is believed that the grave must be visited at least once in your life. And if you meet the Jewish New Year in Uman near his grave, then the next year will be very happy. During the whole of Elul (a month before the new year), Jews prepare for the feast, offering prayers and words of repentance. In the mornings they trumpet into the shofar (ritual wind instrument). During the two days of Rosh Hashanah, the Jews go to synagogues, listen to prayers, pray. And in the second half of the first day they go to the pond and throw in the running water bread crumbs, which symbolize human sins. Everywhere they say the words of greeting and the wishes of a happy year: "Shana Tova!". Rosh Hashanah is a family holiday. On the table on a holiday, there should always be dishes that are the symbol of a happy year:

a ram's head, to always be not "in the tail, but at the head, fish as a symbol of fertility, carrots sliced ??with circles as a reminder of gold coins, fruits and vegetables as a sign of abundant harvest , sweet hala with raisins, so that the whole year was sweet, pieces of apples in honey, so that the year was happy. All prohibitions and restrictions applied to Shabbat can not be violated even in the new year of Rosh Hashanah. It is allowed only cooking under certain circumstances, despite the Shabbat.

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