Rosh Hashanah

Jewish faith revolves around the theme of relationships between the Creator, mankind and the land of Israel. It is through these relationships that Jewish Beliefs, Customs and Sacred Writings interlink throughout the Jewish religion. The festival Rosh Hashanah is a prime example of where Jewish practices strongly associate with the beliefs and Sacred Scriptures of Judaism. Through the links between customs, traditions and Sacred Writings, adherents to the Jewish faith affiliate with not only their communities

Yom Kippur is the most important feast in the Jewish calendar. The Jewish people celebrates this feat on every consecutive year. I chose to speak about the feast of Yom Kippur because it was inspired to me by one of the initiators of the Neocatechumenal Way (Carmen Hernandez). Hernandez had a deep love of for the Jewish Liturgies especially the feast of Yom Kippur. Every single year the Neocatechumenal Way in different countries has a retreat and in the retreat there is a special day reserved for

Every year, on Rosh Hashana, we read from Sefer Bereishis. We discuss the story of Avraham and Hagar and Yishamel and Sarah and Yitzchak. Avraham and Hagar had Yishmael while Sarah was still barren. Finally, towards the end of their lives, they had Yitzchak. The pasuk there tells us that after that, "Sarah saw that the son of Hagar (Yishmael), the Egyptian, that she had born to Avraham, was mocking. She said to Avraham, 'Drive out this slave-woman and her son, for the son of this slave-woman will

Elie Wiesel details his experiences being deported to different concentrations camps in the book Night. He lived in Sighet, Transylvania and at the age of 15 he and his family were sent first to two different ghettos and then to the camps. His story is breathtaking and can really teach someone important lessons. In Wiesel's memoir one idea that is presented is that when one questions his faith in God, he begins to lose hope in life. Scary experiences can change a person in lots of ways. SS officers

World religions have been a key factor in the development of the world throughout the course of time. Religions like Christianity, Judaism, and Islam have been the major players in the development. These religions impacted the world and future development through their holidays, foods, and through their sports.The future of the world was shaped around these three religions and more is yet to come. They impacted the world in many ways, but there were certain things like all the different holidays

It’s a tradition on Rosh Hashanah, to eat a variety of random foods as symbols for the upcoming Jewish New Year. Each food has a different meaning, weakly attributed to its name in Aramaic or Hebrew. At any given time there is at least one food that you will find completely revolting (fish head anyone?) and a couple others that you kind of like anyway. But what you didn’t know is that each food you like actually tells you everything you need to know about your own personality and what type of neurosis

Auschwitz concentration camp. While there, Wiesel is forced to a reexamine and even question his previously strong relationship with God. On pages 67 and 68, Elie begins his first act of rebelling the Jewish religion when on the first night of Rosh Hashanah, he doesn’t participate in the prayer and later, when he doesn’t fast for Yom Kippur. Through anaphoric repetition and juxtaposition, Wiesel explores the complicated and ever-changing relationship with God that victims of religious persecution

The seven Jews celebrate seven important holidays throughout the year. These holidays represent occasions where God steered the Jews down the right path. These holidays include Shabbat, Purim, Passover, Yom Kippur, Hanukkah, Rosh Hashana, and Shavuot. These holidays come around every year. They all involve their own ceremonies and customs. Jews all around the world take part in the festivities. More importantly, these holidays depict how and why people of Jewish value these celebrations. First

Although Berlin commanded that the operation was to be continued as planned, Best had one more card to play. In a meeting between Best, Mildner, and the plenipotentiary’s deputy and old friend, SS-Brigadeführer Paul Kanstein, who would later be involved in the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt on Hitler as the would-be new head of the German security police, it was decided that a warning should be issued to the Jewish community. This warning would be “leaked” by Best’s confidant, Georg Ferdinand

Judaism Judaism began about 4000 years ago with the Hebrew people in the Middle East. Abraham, who was a Hebrew man, is considered the father of the Jewish faith because he promoted the main idea of the Jewish faith: that there is only one God. At the time a lot of people in the Middle East worshipped many gods. The Jewish tradition, Abraham founded which was later named the Jewish religion in the land of Israel, around 1800 BCE. The Torah says that Abraham came to know that there was only one