Happy Rosh Hashanah!
Today is Rosh Hashanah, the start of the Jewish New Year, so here are the Maccabeats to sing it in…
"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
Today is Rosh Hashanah, the start of the Jewish New Year, so here are the Maccabeats to sing it in…
Okay…today’s Friday Frivolity was a little nerdy…computer nerdy. So, for today only, I’m posting a second Friday Frivolity which is Hebrew nerdy…
In honour of Rosh Hashanah, please welcome once more the Torah-tastic Maccabeats…
Want to hear more? Go listen to the Book of Good Life…
Happy New Year!
Sunset tonight marked the Jewish celebration of Rosh Hashanah (literally “head of the year”), described in the Torah as “The Day of the Blowing of the Shofar”, a Ram’s Horn:
“Say to the Israelites: ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts” – Leviticus 23:24