WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New year. It is when the birth of the universe is celebrated. The shofar, a ram’s horn, is sounded to wake up Jews and signify the new year has begun. The day is spent in prayer or quiet meditation and festive meals are shared.

Detailed explanation-2: -Rosh Hashanah doesn’t just mark the beginning of the Jewish New Year-it’s also the start of the high holy days. It’s celebrated with prayer, festive meals, and joyful blasts of the shofar, a horn whose sound is believed to be a call to repent from sin.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -Baruch atah, Adonai Eloheinu, Melech haolam, shehecheyanu v’kiy’manu v’higianu laz’man hazeh. In English: “Praise to You, Adonai our God, Sovereign of the universe, for giving us life, for sustaining us, and for enabling us to reach this season."