[ April 19, 2024 ]
Tonight is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year. It begins at sundown. While non-Jews consider this the year 2019, for the Jewish people it is the year 5780. Posting will be light, as I have brisket to braise and honey cake to bake.
This Sunday evening Jews around the world will begin the celebration of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Throughout the holiday, Jews of every conceivable background and belief – social, demographic, religious, ethnic and cultural – will hear the loud, piercing blast of the shofar. The job of the shofar is to wake us from our spiritual slumber, to make us fully alert.
Immediately after the shofar blasts we say Hayom harat olam, hayom ya’amid bamishpat – “Today is the birthday of the world, today the world stands in judgment.” What a powerful set of images. On one hand, it is the world’s birthday and we are free to start again with a clean slate.
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The festival of Rosh Hashanah—the name means “Head of the Year”—is observed for two days beginning on 1 Tishrei, the first day of the Jewish year. It is the anniversary of the creation of Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, and their first actions toward the realization of mankind’s role in G‑d’s world. (Chabad)
In the Jewish oral tradition, Rosh Hashanah marks the completion of the creation of the world.
Rosh Hashanah is the beginning of the Jewish High Holy Days, or Yamim Noraim (the “Days of Awe“), and is followed 10 days later by Yom Kippur, the “day of atonement.” The Mishnah refers to Rosh Hashanah as the “day of judgment,” and it is believed that God opens the Book of Life on this day and begins to decide who shall live and who shall die. The days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are viewed as an opportunity for Jews to repent (teshuvah, in Hebrew) and ensure a good fate.
Jews traditionally gather in synagogues on Rosh Hashanah for extended services that follow the liturgy of a special prayerbook, called a mahzor, that is used during the Days of Awe. At specific times throughout the service, a shofar, or ram’s horn, is blown. The mitzvah (commandment) to hear the shofar, a literal and spiritual wake-up call, is special to this time of year.
The new year is the only Jewish holiday that is observed for two days by all Jews (other holidays are observed for just one day within the Land of Israel) as it is also the only major holiday that falls on a new moon (here)
Wishing all of my readers a sweet and happy new year. May you be inscribed and sealed in the book of life.
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41 Comments
4 years ago
Let the First Sincere Message Come From President Trump.
Trump wishes Jewish community a happy New Year
4 years ago
I think… it’s the birthday of the soul of humanity. The Rambam, a great jewish commentator, describes those prior who had no such human soul, as looking exactly like those with souls, same capabilities but without a soul…. incredibly dangerous. Happy New Yeara, Happy birth of human souls and the possiblities therein. Chag Sameach Pamela, strength and fortitude to you and yours.
4 years ago
Happy New Year to you too – and everyone here!
And God bless you too.
4 years ago
I don’t mean this in a sarcastic way but I do hope Jews in Israel WAKE UP!
This lack of ability to form a government is making them vulnerable. This is emboldening Iran, Russia and Turkey. Ezekiel 38. These three have had their 5th summit in Syria about Syria without Syria! Putin quoted from the Quran in defending this vile Muslim alliance! They are watching the turmoil in Israel and the U.S.. Lefty Jews in Israel want to indict PM Netanyahu and the swamp want to impeach President Trump. Hear any strenuous objections to the by the GOP?
Liberman: Israelis won’t forgive Gantz, Netanyahu if third elections called
By TOI STAFF
29 September 2019, 6:44 pm
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“The citizens of Israel will not forgive you if you lead us to another round of elections just because of ego and personal matters,” Liberman wrote in a Facebook post ahead of the Rosh Hashanah holiday.
Liberman helped trigger the September 17 vote by refusing to join a Netanyahu-led government after elections on April 9 unless a bill regulating military conscription for seminary students was passed without changes — a demand rejected by the prime minister’s ultra-Orthodox allies.
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Liberman, whose party rose from five to eight seats in the September 17 elections and holds the balance of power in the Knesset between Netanyahu’s Likud and Gantz’s Blue and White, campaigned on forcing a unity government between the two parties if neither could form a coalition without him — a vow he has reiterated since the vote.
“The public demands a unity government,” he said, pointing out that Gantz and Netanyahu’s parties don’t even need Yisrael Beytenu to form such a coalition, as they hold a majority of seats between them. (Blue and White won 33 seats and Likud 32.)..
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Liberman asserted that ideological differences between the two parties were minimal and that Likud supporters were not voting for Netanyahu’s religious partners when they cast their ballots.
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“Another round of elections will not lead to a different outcome but to a national disaster and economic paralysis that will be written in your name,” Liberman said.
“For the next new year… I urge you to show responsibility, put your egos and personal interests aside and establish a government that will begin to address the problems and challenges we face.”
(It seems to me that LIBERMAN should be taking his on advice! He is the one that forced the second election.)
Liberman met last week with Gantz but has not sat down with Netanyahu since the elections, though Yisrael Beytenu has indicated he would be willing to meet the prime minister if he receives an official invitation to do so.
Negotiations between representatives from Likud and Blue and White over the possibility of forming a unity government ended early Sunday afternoon with both sides blaming the other for a lack of progress and apparent breakdown of the talks.
Likud said Netanyahu would make a final attempt to reach agreements on Wednesday — the same day his pre-indictment hearing begins with the attorney general — in direct talks with his counterpart from Blue and White.
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https://www.timesofisrael.com/liberman-israelis-wont-forgive-gantz-netanyahu-if-third-elections-called/
While Lieberman AIDS the LEFT and helps keep the impasse going…
Iran Threatens to Turn Israel into ‘dust in half a day’
By JNS September 23, 2019 , 3:40 pm
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Iran is no longer limited by its geographic borders, and has the ability to destroy Israel in “half a day,” said Iranian Ayatollah Ahmad Alamolhoda on Friday.
Alamolhoda, the representative of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Khorasan Razavi province, said during a televised sermon on Friday that the Islamic Republic was no longer defined by its borders, as the Popular Mobilization Units in Iraq, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, the national front in Syria and Islamic Jihad and Hamas in Gaza “are Iran.”
He went on to state that if Iran’s borders were trespassed, Israel would be “turned to dust in half a day,” and confirmed that Iran played a role in the Sept. 14 drone and missile attack on the Abqaiq and Khurais oil fields in Saudi Arabia.
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Audience: Allah Akbar! Allah Akbar! Allah Akbar! Khamenei is the leader! Death to those who oppose the rule of the jurisprudent! Salutations upon the warriors of Islam! Peace be upon the martyrs! Death to America! Death to England! Death to the hypocrites and the infidels! Death to Israel!
Ayatollah Ahmad Alamolhoda: Do you even understand where Iran is? Do you look to see where it is? Isn’t south Lebanon Iran? Isn’t Hezbollah Iran? The Yemeni-sent drones that caused such damage to Saudi Arabia—wasn’t Iran there? You say that [the drones] came from the north and not from the south. South or north—what difference does it make? Iran is both to your south and to your north.
https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/137686/iran-threatens-to-turn-israel-into-dust-in-half-a-day/
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Interesting that Jews celebrate New Year on the first day of the seventh month, Felix: Leviticus. 23:23-25.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Bipartisanship is great for the politicians because it’s quiet, and “equal”, but it’s quite the opposite for the people IMHO; people deal in right and wrong, sorry right has to have more might than wrong so it can never be equal.
4 years ago
Happy Rosh Hashabah to all. Thank you Pamela for all your hard work.
4 years ago
While President Trump wishes everyone a happy Rosh Hashanah, Trudeau doesn’t breathe a word and his facebook page always mentions everyone’s holiday. (usually moslems and Sikh) He’s such a dolt and an antisemitic Soros puppet.
4 years ago
Reply to
Truthhurts
Maybe I missed it but Angela Merkel appears to have gone silent too.
4 years ago
Happy Rosh Hashanah to all our wonderful Jewish friends.
4 years ago
Reply to
Ban Islam
Our wonderful Jewish friends indeed! Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
4 years ago
Totally OT. How do some people have Disqus accounts with a grey icon and no ability to check them?
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
But I fit both categories. There is more to it than that as much of the leftist trash with whom I have IT conflict do so and in increasing numbers.
4 years ago
Reply to
Michelle
We’re ‘anonymous’ posters. When we reply we don’t login to anything and we check the box that says “I’d rather post as a guest”. I think IP addresses are still tracked regardless though, but I have a VPN so that only gets them so far.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Oh that is helpful. I must learn how.When I edited Wikipedia and make the mistake of posting truth on Islamic websites the threats to myself and my family rolled in like a tsunami and when I reported them I was told: “if you make the dog angry whose fault is it if he bites you?”. After that I went obscure, deleted FB and grabbed a VPN. Since then only the usual leftard/muslim insults. Thx
4 years ago
Reply to
Michelle
You are one smart lady and nothing like the Michelle in the Beatles song!
4 years ago
Just be extra cautious from Muslims
4 years ago
Let’s get it right, though. Current Israel is nothing more than a Zionist state and an affront to Yahua as he has not called his people home yet. It is a joke and let’s be clear, true Jews are of the Tribe of Judah, which these “Jews” are not. It is all fake and a Rothschild construct, and Trump is a part of it. Pamela won’t tell you that.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
LOL, you are showing how brainwashed you are. The “truth” you have learned is very far from it.
4 years ago
Reply to
G. T. Void
That just shows how ignorant you are. I AM talking about Yahua’s word and the message of Yeshua. You’ve been brainwashed. The Bible clearly states the the Jews are no longer the Chosen People, but that any who devoutly believes in Yeshua are brought into the fold. The Jews lost their chance when they rejected Yeshua.
4 years ago
Shana Tova!
4 years ago
In John 14:6 Jesus Christ, a Jew was speaking to a Jew, the Apostle Thomas, “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.” The white throne judgement will indeed see the opening of the Lambs book of life. All rejecters of Jesus, as messiah, will not have their name recorded there. They will be separated from God and cast into the outer darkness, to suffer eternal damnation. Let today be the day of your salvation.
4 years ago
Reply to
Seniorsquadldr
I had thought in Revelations it was spelled out that a certain number of Jews from every one of the 12 tribes will be saved regardless.
4 years ago
Happy New Year to all G-d’s children !
4 years ago
Shana Tova, Pamela and to all my friends who celebrate Rosh Hashana.
4 years ago
Yes! Pamela is a hero. G-d Bless You, Pamela! Shana L’Tovah!
4 years ago
Happy Rosh Hashanah, hopefully the new year will be better than the old.
Do they serve those tasty potato pancakes on Rosh Hashanah? I forget what they’re called, latkes?
4 years ago
Convert to the religion of pi$$ eh? What do you get out of jannah fool? A chance to be one of those 72 virgins? Allah said most women end up in hell, but then again he is the “greatest of deceivers” isn’t he.
Why don’t you take ur dumb white arse and go live in some muslum hellhole state and find out how women are treated in the muslum world allah for yourself?
4 years ago
Bless you, and thank you !
