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    What is Rosh Hashanah? What you need to know about the Jewish holiday

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    Rosh Hashanah is one of Judaism’s holiest days and begins at sunset on Wednesday.

    The two-day celebration marks the start of the Jewish New Year and is filled with traditions, such as eating a round of challah and saying prayers near a body of water.

    This year the holiday starts at sunset on October 2 and ends at sunset on October 4. The exact date of the holiday varies each year – last year it started on September 15 – but is almost always in September or October.

    Here’s everything you need to know about Rosh Hashanah 2024, including when it will be, what the holiday commemorates, and how it will be celebrated.

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    When is Rosh Hashanah 2024?

    Because it is based on the Hebrew calendar, Rosh Hashanah begins on the first day of the seventh month, so this year’s celebration begins at sunset on Wednesday, October 2, 2024 and continues until sunset on Friday, October 4, 2024. .

    Rosh Hashanah is the only Jewish holiday that lasts two days, both inside and outside Israel. It is called yoma arichta, translated as “a long day” because the 48-hour celebration can be seen as one extended day.

    Rosh Hashanah is often seen as a time to reflect on the previous year and focus on hopes for the year ahead, Jordan Rosenblum, the Belzer Professor of Classical Judaism and Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told USA TODAY last year.

    What is Rosh Hashanah? Why is it important?

    Rosh Hashanah marks the beginning of the Days of Awe, ten days of introspection and repentance leading up to Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement and the most sacred holiday for the Jewish people.

    Samira Mehta, the director of undergraduate studies in the Jewish studies program at the University of Colorado Boulder, previously told USA TODAY that the “Book of Life,” which symbolizes how Jewish people will be judged in the coming year, “opens” on Rosh Hashanah and is “sealed” on Yom Kippur.

    Rosh Hashanah is also important to some Jewish people as a celebration of the creation of humanity. It may be referred to as the “birthday of the world,” marking the time when God created Adam and Eve – or when the breath of life entered.

    How is Rosh Hashanah celebrated? Traditions explained

    Jewish people may take time away from work to attend services with special prayers and songs to mark the new year, although celebrations don’t just take place within the walls of a synagogue.

    Many Jewish communities blow a shofar, a curved ram’s horn, during the service.

    Some Jews may also pray near a body of water during a Tashlich ceremony, in addition to throwing pieces of bread or other food into the water to symbolize the sending of sins.

    What do you say on Rosh Hashanah?

    If you’re not sure how to greet someone on Rosh Hashanah, you can simply say “Shanah Tovah,” which means “good year” in Hebrew. The word ‘u’metuka’ – meaning ‘and sweet’ – is sometimes added to the end of that sentence, as in ‘good and sweet year’.

    USA TODAY Network reporter Dwight Adams contributed to this article.

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