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Rosh Hashanah: Jews around the world celebrate their New Year

On the evening of September 25, the Jewish New Year began under the name Rosh Hashanah, which in Hebrew means "head of the year." It will last exactly two days. On this holiday, it is customary to observe various traditions and rules. Courier.Wednesday.

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It is one of the most important Jewish holidays and is associated with many symbolic rites. SPB.MK. For the Jews, the New Year is not unbridled fun, but a time of repentance. The main task of a person on these holidays is to remember what happened during the year, to confess all bad deeds and sincerely repent of them.

It is believed that the holiday is celebrated on the anniversary of not the First, but the Sixth day of the Creation of the world, when God created man. On this day, the world faces God's judgment.

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The Jewish New Year is a family holiday. After the synagogue, the Jews gather at home or in the community. Children are told about traditions, they learn holiday songs with them and create various crafts, reports Mir24.

Meanwhile, the adult table is bursting with food. Each dish has its own meaning. For example, apples and honey mean that the coming year will be sweet. Pomegranates symbolize righteous deeds, believers wish them to each other more than grains inside the fruit. Well, fish is always in the center of the festive table. You should not eat bitter and sour food, so that the coming year does not bring sorrow and misfortune. You should not eat nuts, as in the Hebrew vocabulary this word is associated with the concept of sin.
On the eve of the holiday, believers greet each other with the wish to be inscribed in the Book of Life.

It is believed that on the Jewish New Year, higher powers decide which of the people will be lucky and who will face a harsh year. It is for this reason that it is required to spend this period righteously, thoughtfully. without committing evil and without violating the prohibitions of the holiday date.

There are categorical restrictions. For example, on New Year’s Eve you can’t work (except for cooking) and swear.

The Jewish calendar does not coincide with the Gregorian calendar accepted in most countries. Believers celebrate the year 5783.

Jews lead the reckoning from the creation of the world. According to the Talmud, it was on this day that Adam and Eve appeared. This calendar is lunisolar and is considered one of the most complex. Months begin on the new moon. The same dates should fall not only on the same season of the year, but also on the same phase of the moon.

The Jewish calendar is the official calendar in Israel along with the Gregorian. According to this calendar, Jewish holidays are celebrated, the corresponding chapters of the Torah are read in synagogues.

The Jewish New Year will last two days. In total, believers have 10 days to repent. The celebrations will end with the day of atonement - the holiday of Yom Kippur.

Every autumn, thousands of people in kippahs and sidelocks come to the Ukrainian city of Uman to celebrate Rosh Hashanah. Tsimes.

80-40 thousand Jews annually come to the 50-thousandth Uman for the period of autumn holidays.

Jews of various denominations come, but especially the followers of one of the religious trends in Judaism, the Bratslav Hasidim, tend to Uman. The fact is that it is there that the founder of this branch of Hasidism, Rabbi Nachman from Bratslav, is buried. Among his followers, it is considered a blessing and a righteous deed to meet Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, near the grave of a rabbi.

Through his disciple, Rabbi Natan Sternhartz, Nachman gave his followers a will, where he said that everyone who comes to him on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, prays, reads the psalms and gives money for tzedaka (charity), will be freed from sins.

After the death of Rabbi Nachman in 1810, Rabbi Nathan began to promote the teachings of the Bratslav tzadik (righteous man) and organized the first trips to his grave.

During World War II, the Jewish cemetery in Uman was destroyed by the Nazis. In its place, they decided to build a new residential area, and the grave of the tzaddik was threatened. The Hasidim say that a certain ger (a non-Jew who converted to Judaism) saved the situation - the authorities did not suspect him of having relations with the Jews, so he bought the plot of land where the burial was located and built a house there, but so that the grave was adjacent to the wall of the dwelling .

Already after the collapse of the USSR, in 1994, the President of Ukraine issued a decree on the creation of a Historical and Cultural Center at the burial site of Rabbi Nachman. The new owners of the house were relocated, and over time, the oel, a ritual building on the grave of the tzadik, was recreated on the site.

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Most often, people go for a few days during Rosh Hashanah, sometimes, if they can afford it, they stay for a week or longer, until Yom Kippur. On ordinary days, the oel has a separate entrance for women and men, but due to the interpretation of the teachings of Rabbi Nachman, it is generally accepted that Rosh Hashanah is the most “male” holiday. Women are more likely to come to Hanukkah.

This year, despite to war, Hasidim go to Ukraine for the annual pilgrimage.

It is important to understand that the core of the Bratslavites is a rather nonconformist group. For them, according to the teachings of Rabbi Nachman, overcoming obstacles on the way to the tzaddik is a boon. The more obstacles you overcome, the more sacred your visit.

In the teachings of Rabbi Nachman there is the concept of “nekudot tovot”: when a person feels a spiritual decline, he must find bright points, sparks that are in him. Left alone with himself, a person realizes the number of his own sins, falls into despondency and despair. This is a very dangerous thing, because the most terrible consequence of sin is to leave your connection with the Almighty. Rabbi Nachman says: “At such moments, you should not despair, you should find bright points in yourself.” Notice and notice what you are good at and what you have succeeded in.

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