This holiday has little in common with the usual understanding of New Year. Not champagne and tangerines, no fireworks and not even the slightest hint of unbridled fun. Rosh Hashanah is a time of rethinking the past, repentance and hope for the future.
In this lesson of Tetiana Seliutina, researcher of Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine” you will learn:
- Why do Jews celebrate New Year in the autumn, and the beginning of the year in the spring?
- What events in biblical history are associated with the Rosh Hashanah holiday?
- Why do Jews need a shofar and what is it?
- How to get into the Book of Life and what does it take??
Watch this and other lessons on the Museum’s Facebook page and on our YouTube channel.