Friday note

Dear parents,



We were very busy learning about Rosh Hashanah.

We learned a new song for the 12 Hebrew month, and we know that Rosh Hashnah starts on the first day of the first month of Tishri.


Rosh means "head" and Shanah means "year", together the two Hebrew words means: "head of the year". On Rosh Hashanh we go to "Bet-Keneset" (synagogue) and pray for a year of good health and peace. We need to think about the good things we did in the past year. We also promise to ourselves that in the year to come we will try to become better people by doing t'shuvah (repentance). We ask G-d to forgive us for any wrongs we have done.



- In "Bet-Kneset we pray from special prayer book call "Machzor".



-another name for Rosh Hashanah is Yom t'ruah, the day of blowing the shofar. The shofar is a ram's horn, and the sound reminds all Jews to return to Torah and to good deeds.



There are three types of shofar blasts blown on Rosh Hashanh, known as T'kee'ot:

T'kiah- a straight unbroken blast that ends sharply.

Shevarim- three broken sounds, like a shiver.

T'ruah- a group of nine short notes.


As you see we made a circle with the symbols and their meanings:

Round challah (challah agulah)- we pray that our coming year will be unending just like the round challah

Apple and Honey (tapuach be dvash)- we ask G-d to send us a year of sweetness.

Head of a fish (rosh shel dag) we ask G-d to be as the head and not as the tail.

Pomegranate (rimon)- we ask G-d that our merits increase like (the seed of) a pomegranate.
"שָנָה טוֹבָה וּמְתוּקָה"

"May you have a sweet and happy new year."

MORAH IRIT