#yamim nora'im

[flamingkorybante]

If you missed our F.A.E. Kol Nidre service, this is the Kol Nidre prayer itself, shouted people's mic-style in the street by over a hundred radical Jews and comrades before our brass band came out and helped us dance the remains of empire out of our bodies.

We are not just here to protest violence; we are here to make it obsolete.

We are not just here to fight nationalism; we are here to make it obsolete.

The forces of faggotry are older and stronger than the forces of empire. We invoke them now.

[etz-ashashiyot]

Maybe I'll have something profound to say tonight once I've had a little time and have been able to mourn communally with my community, but I definitely don't right now.

Yes, it's been a full year.

Yes, Jewish time is a spiral.

No, there still are not adequate words.

Yes, this has changed us all, permanently.

Yes, we are in the middle of the Yamim Nora'im, a time of reflection and return.

And what are you going to do with this ring of the spiral? How are you going to layer over your steps, like return footprints in snow? Where will you set your sights, now that we are forever changed? Who are you becoming, even now?

[anonymousdandelion]

Note that we're talking about the melodic/cantillation aspects specifically here: Eichah can be your favorite trop without being your favorite megillah. And you don't have to be able to leyn to have an opinion — feel free to vote based on whatever you most enjoy listening to!

Bonus points for sharing in the tags what specific minhag of trop you were thinking of when you voted, since they're beautifully different!

(I'm mostly only familiar with the Ashkenazi versions — though I've heard Sephardi Torah readingn a couple times — so apologies if I left something off the list that doesn't have an analog in Ashkenazi minhag. 😭 Or, for that matter, if I left something Ashkenazi off, which is also possible.)

[lennart11412]

Rosh Hashanah 2024

The Jewish New Year

Rosh Hashanah is the birthday of the universe, the day G‑d created Adam and Eve, and it’s celebrated as the Jewish New Year. Rosh Hashanah 5785 begins at sundown on the eve of Tishrei 1 (Oct. 2, 2024) and ends after nightfall on Tishrei 2 (Oct. 4, 2024).

The central observance of Rosh Hashanah is blowing the shofar (ram’s horn) on both mornings of the holiday (except on Shabbat), which is normally done in synagogue as part of the day’s services.

Rosh Hashanah feasts traditionally include round challah bread (studded with raisins) and apples dipped in honey, as well as other foods that symbolize our wishes for a sweet year.

Other Rosh Hashanah observances include candle lighting in the evenings and desisting from creative work.

Together with Yom Kippur (which follows 10 days later), it is part of the Yamim Nora'im (Days of Awe, or High Holidays).

[writer59january13]

Rosh Hashshana 2023

Began at sunset

on Friday, Sept. 15,

and ends at sunset

on Sunday, Sept. 17.

No matter yours truly an atheist,

I consider myself

fascinated with my Semitic ancestry (maybe unwittingly genealogically linkedin with unsuspecting readers) excited regarding: upcoming Jewish holiday(s) fast approaching

by the bewitching hour,

which doth hold key to Chamber Of Secrets to – me analogous being Sorcerer's Apprentice tendering, and kindling Goblet of Fire as you will read and see, though impossible mission to proffer extensive family tree.

Courtesy of Google, this grown man

linkedin with tribes of Zion

indulged curiosity of mine

proudly harkens, (particularly

as he doth accumulate

orbitz around the sun)

from Semitic ancestral line

surrounded by Jewish community (countless years ago, when we called Penn Valley

our place of residence)

off a street that arched (like Noah’s bow sprint)

and named Woodbine.

Yet, he knows virtually nothing about Jewish History

lets inquisitiveness wander

as a descendent from

the “Lost Tribes Of Israel”

pondering how his life would be lived

if baptized in customs, faith, and religion

considered one of

the oldest codified paradigms.

The first of the High Holy Days

or Yamim Nora'im ("Days of Awe")

celebrated on the first two days of Tishrei

the first day of the

seventh month as "Zikhron Teru'ah"

("A memorial with the blowing of horns").

Rosh Hashanah is described

as "the day of judgment"

(Yom ha-Din) and

"the day of remembrance" (Yom ha-Zikkaron)

occurs 163 days

after the first day of Passover (Pesach)

beginning of Rosh Hashanah

at sundown at the end of 29 Elul.

The evening before

Rosh Hashanah day is known

as Erev Rosh Hashanah

("Rosh Hashanah eve").

On Rosh Hashanah day,

religious poems, called piyyuttim, are added to the regular services.

A special prayer book,

the Mahzor is used on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

This sacred day,

the horn doth blow to then chauffeur

(two precious daughters now grown and autonomous

didst long since exit and escape

parental basket of deplorables,

where freedon beckoned,

when age of consent attained exited – rather hightailed out front door)

marginally linkedin with historical past

replete with tantalizing lore,

where legions of commandments pour

and more relevant than ever

as global tempests roar

atrocity diminishing Hebraic peoples

courtesy incessant pograms and war.

[help-help-i-need-an-adult]

Hello, saw you asked about the most important Jewish holiday. I will try to answer to the best of my knowledge and based on my experience as an Orthodox Jewish person.

So, the thing is, there isn't a "most important Jewish holiday". There are holidays that are in the Torah (rosh hashanah, yom kippur, sukkot, shmini atzeret/simchat torah, pesach and shavuot), holidays that aren't in the Torah (chanukah, tu bishvat, purim) and holidays that are weird (tu be'av).

Holidays that are in the Torah are obviously more "important" and they also typically have a full on "chag" in them - a day that is like shabbat.

Rosh Hashanah, Yom kippur, sukkot and shmini atzeret are all on the same month and are very close to each other. They got the name "Yamim Nora'im" ("terrible days"). in rosh hashanah and yom kippur we get judged and in sukkot we start the year clean (sort of) and start asking for rain. If you're looking for the "holiday season" of Judaism - that's the closest you can get.

Pesach is the holiday about the Exodus and marks the beginning of the Jewish people and the Jewish nation so that could also count as important...

TL;DR - chanukah is obe of the MINOR holidays in Judaism since it is not ordered in the Torah. There's no clear "most important" holiday in Judaism.

Thank you for the information! I really appreciate you being willing to share that with me ❤️

[jewish-privilege]

L'shana tovah! To a year of plenty and satiety! (Original card by Ephraim Moses Lillien)

[mayyim-hayyim-blog]

As we begin preparations for the holiest day of the year, we invite you to ask yourself: who will you be in 5778? Consider a Yom Kippur immersion!

email info@mayyimhayyim.org for a copy of our Yom Kippur immersion ceremony. 

[paulinedorchester]

Another thing that complicated the High Holy Days in the U.K. in 1939 was the evacuation. Barely three weeks earlier, thousands of Jewish children had been relocated from London, Manchester, and other cities to the countryside — a truly alien environment for British Jews. Except for the very youngest, whose mothers went with them, and those attending Jewish schools, they were unaccompanied by any Jewish adult. Both destinations and host households seem to have been sorted at random.

I’ve read a huge number of horror stories about this, from billeting officers going door-to-door with Jewish evacuees and being unable to find accommodation for them, to Kindertransport children being entrusted to foster parents who proceeded to do every last thing in their power to obliterate their charges’ Jewish identity. It has thus been a great pleasure to discover that the press in reception areas made a real effort to spread useful information about Judaism, and also to find documentation there of genuine warmth towards and support for the Jewish communities that had suddenly cropped up.

A tremendous effort appears to have been made in some places to serve the newcomers’ needs. This is from The Mid-Sussex Times for September 12th, describing arrangements at Hassocks:

And this is from the previous day’s Lincolnshire Free Press (be sure to read all the way to the end of the clipping):

One thing that must have been on the minds of a great many host families was the question of food. The Biggleswade Chronicle printed this announcement on September 22nd:

Readers of the Biggleswade Chronicle had a particular need for this kind of information: as I learned earlier this year, the newspaper — whose September 22nd, 1939, issue carried more relevant material than I can reproduce here — serves an area that received the entire Amhurst Park Jewish Preparatory School, a population of some 500 students, faculty, and staff, including some refugees.

Birmingham is one of the places from which vulnerable people were evacuated, but the Birmingham Mail looked after its own even in their absence. On September 21st they published the following reassurance to foster parents:

Of course, children weren’t the only members of the Jewish community who’d been on the move. It was a pleasure — and a bit of a surprise, I must admit — to read the following in The Western Morning News for September 11th:

[sokkagatekeeper]

happy yamim nora'im szn i keep seeing the word ‘sukkah’ and thinking that it's weird that there's an h at the end, before remembering that that's actually the more common way to spell it . i've been an atla fan for too long

[sapropel]

The idea of a "Hanukkah season" is really weird and the only reason it exists is because of its proximity to Christmas... If anything had a "season" it would be Pesach or maybe the Yamim Nora'im but Hanukkah? I don't think so... I won't disparage Jews for inflating the personal importance of Hanukkah in their lives but it is weird to see people treat Hanukkah as Jewish Christmas especially when it comes from a place of willful ignorance

[trevisdampierministries]

Sept 8, 2021 - Verse of the Day - Psalm 143:10 - Teach me to do your will, for you are my God; may your Good Spirit lead me. from Trevis Dampier Ministries on Vimeo.

News Feed - facebook.com/trevisdampierministries/

Jewish tradition says a new month begins after two witnesses see the crescent new moon, testify before the Sanhedrin who declare the beginning of the new month. Messengers set beacon fires on hills throughout Israel. This happens about a day after the astronomical no moon. But Rosh Hashanah is the beginning of a new month and new civil year. Distant communities celebrate Trumpets on two possible days. The shofar sounds one hundred times during the Jewish service. Yom Teruah or the Feast of Trumpets is the Rapture day.

Rosh Hashanah is the birthday of the universe, the day G‑d created Adam and Eve, and it’s celebrated as the head of the Jewish year. It begins at sundown on the eve of Tishrei 1 (Sept. 6, 2021) and ends after nightfall on Tishrei 2 (Sept. 8, 2021).

The central observance of Rosh Hashanah is blowing the shofar (ram’s horn) on both mornings of the holiday (except on Shabbat), which is normally done in synagogue as part of the day’s services but may be done elsewhere for those who cannot attend.

Rosh Hashanah feasts traditionally include round challah bread (studded with raisins) and apples dipped in honey, as well as other foods that symbolize our wishes for a sweet year.

Other Rosh Hashanah observances include candle lighting in the evenings and desisting from creative work.

Together with Yom Kippur (which follows 10 days later), it is part of the Yamim Nora'im (Days of Awe, or High Holidays).

[made2flourish]

L’shanah tovah tikatev v’taihatem’ ‘May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year’ Time for new beginnings…  Dawning of new hopes… Opening of new horizons… Rosh Hashanah (Hebrew: רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה‎), literally meaning "head [of] the year", is the Jewish New Year. The biblical name for this holiday is Yom Teruah (יוֹם תְּרוּעָה‎), literally "day of shouting or blasting." It is the first of the Jewish High Holy Days (יָמִים נוֹרָאִים‎ Yamim Nora'im. "Days of Awe") specified by Leviticus 23:23–32 that occur in the early autumn of the Northern Hemisphere. I pray we all learn to live in habitation with Him who made us! How would you live if you thought Jesus was returning tonight? Would you be at peace with how you are living? SIT IN SILENCE AND ASK JESUS WHAT YOU NEED TO LET GO OF FOR HIM? WHAT SHIFT MUST YOU MAKE? Things are going to get better for many, but it won't be easy. We need to hold on to Jesus like our lives depend on it because it does. It is important to listen 👂 to what GOD WANTS TO SAY TO YOU! HE WANTS TO TALK TO YOU DIRECTLY! ASK HIM TI SPEAK TO YOU! I BLESS YOUR EARS TO HEAR AND EYES TO SEE IN JESUS NAME!! . . . . . . . . #francischan #ihopkc #viralquote  #faithoverfear  #realtalkkim #mentalhealthisimportant   #KnowAngelique #AngeliqueNews #SpiritualAwakening #emmastone #explorepages #prayer #intercession  #christianbusiness #christianentrepreneur #leader #minister #amen #intercession #faith #gloryofzion #christianinternational #bethel  #kingdombusiness  #jamesgoll #beccagreenwood #ywam #lancewallnau #ihopkc #cheahn #JesusImage #fypシ (at Ziplines At Pacific Crest) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTdpzyKnmx8/?utm_medium=tumblr

[writer59january13]

Rosh Hashshana 2022

No matter yours truly an atheist,

I consider myself fascinated with my ancestry x cited regarding: upcoming Jewish holiday fast approaching

by the bewitching hour which doth hold key to Chamber Of Secrets to – me analogous being Sorcerer's Apprentice as you will read and see, though impossible mission to proffer extensive family tree.

Courtesy of Google, this grown man

linked in with tribes of Zion

indulged curiosity of mine

proudly harkens, (particularly

as he doth accumulate orbitz around the sun)

from Semitic ancestral line

surrounded by Jewish community (countless years ago, when we called Penn Valley

our place of residence)

off a street that arches (like Noah’s bow sprint)

and named Woodbine.

Yet, he knows virtually nothing about Jewish History

lets inquisitiveness wander

as a descendent from the “Lost Tribes Of Israel”

pondering how his life would be lived

if baptized in customs, faith, and religion

considered one of the oldest codified paradigms.

The first of the High Holy Days

or Yamim Nora'im ("Days of Awe")

celebrated on the first two days of Tishrei

the first day of the seventh month as "Zikhron Teru'ah"

("A memorial with the blowing of horns").

Rosh Hashanah is described as "the day of judgment"

(Yom ha-Din) and "the day of remembrance" (Yom ha-Zikkaron)

occurs 163 days after the first day of Passover (Pesach)

beginning of Rosh Hashanah

at sundown at the end of 29 Elul.

The evening before Rosh Hashanah day is known

as Erev Rosh Hashanah ("Rosh Hashanah eve").

On Rosh Hashanah day,

religious poems, called piyyuttim, are added to the regular services.

A special prayer book,

the Mahzor is used on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

This sacred day, the horn doth blow to chauffeur

(two precious daughters now grown and autonomous

didst long since exit and escape

parental basket of deplorables,

where freedon beckoned,

when age of consent attained exited out front door)

marginally linkedin with historical past

replete with tantalizing lore

where legions of commandments pour

and more relevant than ever

as global tempests roar

atrocity diminishing Hebraic peoples

courtesy incessant pograms and war.

[help-help-i-need-an-adult]

Orthodox Jewish anon here again to say that Yamim Nora'im have a lot of songs but they're mostly prayer songs and it's hard to find a decent performance of them online. If you'd like I could search for some and send them.

I would love that! I am willing to search myself because asking that effort of others seems rude, but you’ll likely recognize quality and authenticity better than I ever would so if you are willing, I would be very grateful!

Thank you!