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Rosh Hashanah: Its Significance, Laws, And Prayers A presentation anthologized from Talmudic and traditional sources By Rabbi Nosson Scherman   List Price: $19.99 Online Discount: 10% You Pay Only: $17.99 Catalog #: RSHH ISBN-10: 0899061958 ISBN-13: 9780899061955 Binding: Hardcover / Pages: 126 Dimensions: 6" x 9" / Weight: 0.80 LBS Published: by ArtScroll / Mesorah In Stock?: YES Quantity:  1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950

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A new year. A new beginning. A day of judgment and resolution. This is Rosh Hashanah, the day that calls us to reflect and repent.

The highlight of the day’s service is the blowing of the shofar. The congregation stands at attention, intently awaiting the first clear blast of the horn that evokes the historic moment of the Binding of Isaac by the patriarch Abraham. For many of us, our most vivid memories of this day are the shofar's notes - sometimes firm and piercing, sometimes hesitant and hoarse. The slice of apple dipped into a saucer of honey is another precious recollection, along with the poignant prayers that accompany this custom.

"Give us a sweet year. Give us a healthy year. Give us a successful year. Our Father, our King, be gracious to us..."

The yearnings, hopes and prayers of Rosh Hashanah form the gateway from man to G-d. In this book, a host of these important prayers are explained and illuminated. This is an informative and inspiring volume. To read it is an enriching experience that immeasurably enhances one of the most solemn and meaningful days of the Jewish calendar.

Because this is a time when people are coming back to their roots and searching for the meaning that has eluded generations of English-speaking Jews, the essence of Rosh Hashanah is presented in the language and perspective of today's intellectually curious Jew.

Read it. Absorb it. Enjoy it. And then let its message of Rosh Hashanah seep into your being and deepen the significance of the day the world was conceived.

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Table of Contents

An Overview / That You Make Me Your King

• I. King or Ruler
• II. The Judgment of Rosh Hashanah
• III. God's Remembrance
• IV. Ashes and Life
• V. The Shofar

• Rosh Hashanah / The Day and the Month
• Day of Shofar Blowing
• Determining the Day
• Significant Omens
• The Shofar
• To Confound Satan
• Order of the Shofar Blasts
• Its Composition and Its Shape
• The Persons Obligated
• Some Aspects of the Prayer Service
• Talmudic Teachings

• The Month of Elul
• Selichos
• Erev Rosh Hashanah
• Night of Rosh Hashanah
• Day of Rosh Hashanah
• Sounding the Shofar
• Second Day of Rosh Hashanah

• Eruv Tavshilin
• Kindling of Yom Tov Lights
• LeShanah Tovah
• Kiddush
• Signicant Omens
• Sounding the Shofar
• Kiddusha Rabba