Holiday Greetings

[gnomi]

Wishing everyone a Shanah tovah u'mtukah, a good and sweet new year.

Today, I brought cookies in for my coworkers, figuring cookies were more keyboard-friendly than is honey.

For all celebrating Rosh Hashanah this weekend, best wishes for a happy and healthy new year.

For everyone else, have a great weekend!

Comments

[tru2myart.livejournal.com]

Are you Jewish? How do you celebrate the New Year?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I am, indeed, Jewish.

We celebrate the New Year in a number of different ways. There are a significant number of prayers that are specific to the New Year holiday, so being in synagogue is a significant component of observing the holiday. Further, we tend to have festive meals with family and/or friends. There are symbolic foods that we eat. For a list of the traditional symbolic foods and their reasons, see this article. (http://www.kashrut.com/articles/simanim/) Other symbolic foods that some people eat include pomegranates (that our blessings should be as abundant as the seeds of a pomagranate), fish heads ("that it should be like the head and not like the tail"), and grapes (that we should be close to family and friends as are the grapes in a bunch).

[tru2myart.livejournal.com]

How wonderful! Thank you for sharing with me. My daughter has a friend who Jewish and his family invited us to his Bar Mitzvah which was a great experience for both my daughter and myself and she was invited to celebrate the final day of Chanukah with them which she absolutely loved. Other than that they are very private about their heritage so we never pry but I want so much to learn more about the Jewish faith. It's an incredible religion.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

The website Judaism 101 will probably answer a lot of your questions.

[tru2myart.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Thank you.

[doeeyedbunny.livejournal.com]

Shana Tovah!
(As I commented in mabfan's lj, I really should come visit you guys now that I am a Bostonian.)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Shana Tovah to you, as well!

Yeah -- we should get together at some point (most likely, alas, after the yomim tovim; I can't think straight between now and Simchat Torah (it's like this every year; I've learned to not even try to make plans)).

[epj.livejournal.com]

Happy New Year to you!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

shana tovah to you and mabfan too. :>

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Thank you, from both of us!

And shana tovah to you! :-)

[tygerseye.livejournal.com]

I hope you had a happy holiday weekend! Poor Beth was sick all weekend and so I, the non-jew in the house, took M to all the family functions. It was a little weird, but it was still nice.

Apples and honey... mmmmmm :)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

It was lovely. Our new synagogue has services that moved along nicely, no one spoke for too long, and we had lovely meals with a bunch of friends (and a 4-mile walk to second-day lunch, which was envigorating).

I hope Beth is feeling better.

Yay for apples and honey. And challah and honey.

[tygerseye.livejournal.com]

Raisin Challah. Can you get that all year round, or just at the high holidays?

She is better, not 100%, but better. Thanks!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Raisin challah is available all year round, at least around here. More prevalent at Rosh Hashana, definitely, but findable year round.

Yummmm! :-)