Rosh Hashanah commemorates the creation of the world and marks the beginning of the Days of Awe, a 10-day period of introspection and repentance that culminates in the Yom Kippur holiday, also known as the Day of Atonement. Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are the two “High Holy Days” in the Jewish religion.
According to tradition, God judges all creatures during the 10 Days of Awe between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, deciding whether they will live or die in the coming year. Jewish law teaches that God inscribes the names of the righteous in the “book of life” and condemns the wicked to death on Rosh Hashanah; people who fall between the two categories have until Yom Kippur to perform “teshuvah,” or repentance. As a result, observant Jews consider Rosh Hashanah and the days surrounding it a time for prayer, good deeds, reflecting on past mistakes and making amends with others.
Unlike modern New Year’s celebrations, which are often raucous parties, Rosh Hashanah is a subdued and contemplative holiday. Because Jewish texts differ on the festival’s length, Rosh Hashanah is observed for a single day by some denominations and for two days by others. Work is prohibited, and religious Jews spend much of the holiday attending synagogue. Because the High Holy Day prayer services include distinct liturgical texts, songs and customs, rabbis and their congregations read from a special prayer book known as the machzor during both Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
This two-day holiday is a special holiday for our Jewish family. It’s a celebration of the Creation of the World yet it’s also a time of contemplation. I hope your holiday is filled with love, joy, friends, and good food. I think it’s awesome that the Creation of the World is celebrated. We need to remember where we came from and where we would be without it.
Melinda
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https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/rosh-hashanah-history
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If you learn Aramaic then you immediately see the connection between the later Zohar to the earlier Book of Daniel. Translations totally suck. Worlds separate learning the k’vanna (the aim that the arrow flies in order to kill) from … translating words from language to language. The latter compares to gossip where a person whispers “something” into the ear of another and that person repeats the process, which that other person repeats making a chain transmission of the original idea communicated. From about the 3rd person down the chain of transmission the original idea becomes totally distorted and changed!
The secret kabbalah, originally referred to as Rabbi Akiva’s Pardes/פרדס logic system/Oral Torah. Where sod/hidden\סוד functions as the “logical inference”, known as דיוק/polar opposite\ (((like as does Hegel logic system developed in the late 19th Century))), the opposite “force” of Rabbi Akiva’s פרדס, ie ס, represents סוד-Sod … contrasts with רמז/hints, the letter ר, in the term פרדס/Oral Torah. Where Sod expands the meaning of a term to include ideas outside of itself. Remiz contracts within itself to grasp different ideas. Something like the difference between the Atomic bomb dropped on Japan, ending WWII vs. the Hydrogen bomb first developed by the USSR, at the height of the Cold War stand-off between the two Great Superpowers.
Hebrew examples of the two opposing logical methodologies. בראשית, the 1st word of the Torah, contains within its 6 letters ברית אש, ראש בית, and ב’ ראשית. This רמז\remez developed in entirely different ways to interpret the k’vanna (the aim an arrow flies from the shooter to the deer) of the Genesis story. The פרדס\Pardes logic system, by which Rabbi Akiva explained the revelation of the Oral Torah at Horev 40 days after the golden calf, stands on the סוד/יסוד:hidden secret/foundation, (((The “secret” of building a stable house, building a solid foundation upon which a person’s house stands. The eye cannot see the foundation upon which a person constructs his “house”, which expands by way of סוד to include “wife”.))), the idea of foundation expands its original meaning to include “Republic”. For example: the 13 American colonies made an alliance (understood in Hebrew as ברית/brit) by which the Founding Fathers established the American “Republic”. The US 1st and foremost: a Republic of the 50 States comprising the Union, before it post Civil War became a democracy. The huge population of California does not determine the policies of different States with much smaller populations. Hence the role of the Electoral College in Presidential elections.
The סוד of Jewish law, it stands on the יסוד of Judicial common law as opposed to Roman legislative statute law decrees. The latter directly compares to bureaucratic “red tape” laws imposed by non-elected carpet baggers. The Pauline propaganda rhetoric in the New Testament, where he declared that Goyim are not under the law! This propaganda rhetoric failed to discern between Torah common law from Roman statute/bureaucratic law. Jewish common law stands upon the יסוד of precedents/בנין אב “binyan av”. Meaning that Jewish judicial common law stands upon the סוד of “father”, as the basis by which a man builds his “house”, meaning his wife and family… meaning in terms of law: precedents. The axis of רמז\סוד serves as the basis for the k’vanna of all the halachot learned within the Talmud.
To study the Zohar, completely unaware that it learns by means of kabbalah secrets/סוד of Rabbi Akiva’s explanation of the פרדס logic system known collectively as the “Oral Torah”, compares to a person with no legs, who attempts to win a 100-yard sprint to break the world record in the Olympics! The logical inference-opposite of סוד, the concept known as רמז in the Oral Torah logic system.
Rabbi Yechuda, the author of the compilation of Great Sanhedrin common law courtroom halachic rulings, interpreted the language of the kre’a shma בכל לבבך\with all your heart, based upon the רמז reading of בראשית … ב’ ראשית. The Hebrew for ב’ ראשית — two beginnings. The Hebrew for heart/לב. Why does the Torah in the Book of דברים also known as משנה תורה, (((this latter reference for the 5th Book of the Torah means by way of סוד both “Judicial Common law” & also: “Legislative Review”))) spell the word heart: as לבב? Rabbi Yechuda, based upon the רמז of ב’ ראשית, the 2 Creation stories within the language of Genesis, as inclusive that a person has to accept the yoke of the kingdom of heaven ie the סוד of blessing and curses, with both his Yatzir Ha’Tov & his Yatzir Ha’Rah. His good & evil inclinations! Herein interprets בכל לבבך\כם language employed in the 5th Book of the Torah which the kre’a shma includes.
The language of ראש בית defines the blessing within the Machor/מחזור said on Rosh HaShanna Yom Kippor and also upon the re’gel of Pesach, Shevuot, Sukkot, and Shemini Atzeret: אתה בחרתנו מכל העמים … You have chosen us from all other people/nations. Israel alone lives as the Chosen People, the Cohen nation. The People who discern between tohor and tumah spirits within the two opposing Yatzirot within our hearts. This רמז interpretation sharply contrasts with the church abomination, which makes a bi-polar God vs. Satan Heaven vs. Hell theology.
The Gemara of mesechta Sanhedrin asked the famous question: What caused the floods in the days of Noach which destroyed all life on the Planet Earth, except for Noach and the survivors inside the Ark? Answer given by that Gemara: “False Oaths”. Based upon the רמז of ברית אש within the letters of the first word of the Torah. What defines the Fire of the Brit? Torah oaths – the answer given by the sages in the mesechta of Sanhedrin of the Talmud! Hence the act of Creation stands on the סוד of swearing an Oath alliance. The term ברית/brit means alliance. By way of סוד, alliance expands to include “Republic”! The term Torah: interpreted by way of סוד expands to include “Constitution”! Hence the Davidic Kingdom attempted to make the Torah the “Constitution” of the Israelite Republic of 12 Tribes!
The סוד expands oath brit alliance from swearing Torah oaths to making Torah blessings! Hence just as the mesechta of shabbat and the mesechta of baba kama asks: do the “generations” follow after the fathers? So to the mesechta of blessings/ברכות teaches that making a blessing qualifies as the offspring/תולדות of swearing Torah oaths. Herein defines the k’vanna of tefillah which separates making blessings from praying Tehillim/Psalms. The latter qualify as a lower order praise/שבח rather than swearing a Torah oath before a Sefer Torah. Hence the Shemone Esrei also know as Amida/standing prayer. Mesechta Shevuoth/Oaths teaches that a man can swear a Torah oath while standing before a Sefer Torah. The Sages include swearing a Torah oath with a minyan of 10 men. Hence the mitzva of קידושין/marriage done with 2 witnesses and a minyan; a man acquires Title to the future born children of this marital union by swearing a Torah oath! This likewise explains the post marriage custom of 7 blessings the week thereafter marriage.
The point of this Introduction to kabbalah, a person must understand how סוד stands as the opposite “book-end” of רמז. A person has no more chance to comprehend the סוד of kabbalah instruction as expressed by the Zohar work than a legless man has a possibility of winning a 100 yard sprint to shatter the world record in the Olympics! First learn Aramaic and then study the Aramaic Book of Daniel in the T’NaCH (Torah Prophets and Holy Writings). Confusing the Hebrew T’NaCH with the Xtian Bible translations of abomination, the latter about as useful as tits on a boar hog.
The fraud NT authors did not even know that the T’NaCH defines the term “prophesy” as Aggadic mussar. Aggadic mussar makes up about 1/4th of the Sha’s Bavli. The Sages of the Talmud read the T’NaCH as aggadic prophetic mussar rather than stories of history of times way back when. This fundamental distinction separates Traditional Judaism from Historical and Reform Judaisms which read the T’NaCH as a historical documents rather than an instruction of prophetic mussar which applies equally to all Jews who ever live on the face of this Earth.
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We can make an aliyah of rabbinic mitzvot to דאורייתא mitzvot. Yes. That’s a kabbalah straight from the B’hag! ר”ה dedicates the Neshama/”שנקרא “אל, but יום הכיפורים we dedicate the Chyyah face of our soul שנקרא אלהים. Why do the different faces of the soul have different & separate Divine Names dedications, based upon korbanot? Because as a צלם אלהים when we elevate any mitzva דאורייתא או דרבנן to the level of a טהר זמן גרמא מצוה, tohor being a Spirit blown from within our hearts. The Siddur make a סוד to the שם השם in the word מקום. The concept of shooting an arrow at a target serves as the basis/model for k’vanna. You pull the string back to a fixed point with your jawbone. This gives you an identical pull strength with each and every arrow shot from that bow. You then align the base feather end of the arrow with the target location your aim to hit. Firing a rifle employs a similar חכמה. In both the firing of an arrow or shooting a rifle bullet you must control how you breath. So too when you dedicate your soul every time you come to the שם השם in the Siddur, you breath either tekiya, tr’urah, or sh’varim Spirits. These spirits have a k’vanna by which a person during the 7 days of Shabbat dedicates a face of his Soul unto HaShem. The yom tov of ר”ה dedicates the Spirit of the Neshama, whereas the יום טוב יום הכיפורים dedicates the Spirit of our Chiyya soul. In the ק”ש its written בכל נפשך\כם. We have a kabbalah: תעשה תפילתך במקום קבועה. The word מקום refers to the שם השם. Every יום שלישי we remember the dedication of our Neshama which we dedicated on ר”ה. Every יום רביעי we remember the dedication of our החייאה soul, which we dedicated on Yom Kippur. Based upon the faith that the bnai brit people, the chosen cohen nation, live and breath as the צלם אלהים.
As HaShem Created the Universe לשמה, so too תמיד מעשה בראשית we create the Universe לשמה while in ארץ ישראל – the oath sworn lands. Davening with a קבלה k’vanna far different than simply reading words written in the Siddur\מחזור. The 6 Yom Tov follow a fixed cycle pattern that never changes. Not since Moshe Rabbeinu himself established this קבלה. According to the B’hag, tefilla a mitzva דאורייתא. No! Tefilah a mitzva דרבנן. This Av mitzva דרבנן we can elevate through k’vanna to a mitzva דאורייתא. If we can do this with this tohor time oriented commandment then we can do it with all tohor time oriented commandments ie all the rabbinic mitzvot/halachot learned from the Sha’s Bavli, Yerushalmi, the Tosefta בנין אב precedents etc. Hence ya want to learn the Sha’s Mishna, most advisable to learn it together with the Tosefta. Do this on a cycle, say 30 days where you repeat over and again 18 chapters of Mishnaot with 18 chapters of Tosefta. And you complete both this and that in a month 30 day time period. Cycle through the Mishna with its Tosefta and you learn just How exactly the Gemara edited the Sha’s Bavli and Yerushalmi.
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