What is the significance of rashashana?

Answer 1

It is the Jewish New Year. "May you have a good yom tov."

Rosh Hashanah occurs on the first and second days of Tishri. Roshashana is the Jewish New Years. In Hebrew, Rosh Hashanah means, "head of the year" or "first of the year." It is also known as the day of judgement and the day of remembrance. The reson it is also known as the day of remembrance is because it celebrates the creation of the world and the responsibilities of the Jews (Isrealites) as Gods chosen people. It takes place in September or October. Its a ten day period of self examination and penitence that ends with Yom Kippur. During Roshashana the Jews blow a ram's horn that can make three differt kind of sounds. The rams horn symbolizes spirtual awakening associated with the law given to moses on Mount Sini. Jews do not work on this day, much of the day they spend in the synagogue. Durning this holiday they eat bread and fruit dipped in honey, they also make apple square's. The reason they eat sweet foods is because they ask for a a good and sweet year. On the second day of Rosh Hashanah, we eat a new fruit we have not yet eaten that season so we can say the shehechiyanu blessing. Roshashana does not appear in the Tanakh or the Torah. It is used in the Hebrew Bible in Ezekiel 40:1 in general reference to the "beginning of the year." In the afternoon durning Roshashana, people will perform Tashlikh, they empty their pockets of any crumbs into flowing water, must of the times its a river. This symbolize's the shedding of the last vestiges of the previous year and including their sins. They through bread or pebles to symbolize the "casting off" of sins. The ritual of tashlikh is accompanied by a service with prayers asking God to help take away their sins. Durning Roshashana they must ask for forgivness not only to God but also to the people they have done wrong too.