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Nitzavim/Rosh Hashanah
Your Questions
Dip the Apple in … Sugar!? Here’s Why
The widespread custom is to dip the challah and then an apple into honey on Rosh Hashanah. However, select Sephardic communities have the custom to specifically use sugar.
The widespread custom is to dip the challah and then an apple into honey on Rosh Hashanah. However, select Sephardic communities have the custom to specifically use sugar.
Rosh Hashanah 2026 FAQ
Observed on the day G‑d created Adam and Eve, it’s celebrated as the head of the Jewish year. The central observance of Rosh Hashanah is blowing the shofar (ram’s horn).
Observed on the day G‑d created Adam and Eve, it’s celebrated as the head of the Jewish year. The central observance of Rosh Hashanah is blowing the shofar (ram’s horn).
By the Numbers
17 Shofar Facts Every Jew Should Know
This is your chance to learn all about the central mitzvah of Rosh Hashanah in a fun way
This is your chance to learn all about the central mitzvah of Rosh Hashanah in a fun way
10 Questions: Take the Famous Shuls Quiz
Test your smarts, and gain some new knowledge, about significant synagogues large and small that have shaped our nation.
Test your smarts, and gain some new knowledge, about significant synagogues large and small that have shaped our nation.
18 Empowering Contemplations For Rosh Hashanah
18 memes and contemplations for Rosh Hashanah. Illustrated.
18 memes and contemplations for Rosh Hashanah. Illustrated.
Essay
Why the Zodiac for the Month of Tishrei Is Scales (Libra)
True, we feel inspired now. But what happens in a few weeks when the inspiration falls away?
True, we feel inspired now. But what happens in a few weeks when the inspiration falls away?
What Does Our Spiritual Battle Accomplish?
Only darkness can be the catalyst for the greatest love of G‑d.
Only darkness can be the catalyst for the greatest love of G‑d.
Voices
From a Mormon in Utah to a Jew in Wisconsin
Feelings of intense despair washed over me, and I began to sob.
Feelings of intense despair washed over me, and I began to sob.
G-d Said ‘Yes’ to My Prayer
As I greeted our guests at the door, I froze. Her oversized sweater said it all.
As I greeted our guests at the door, I froze. Her oversized sweater said it all.
We Never Made it to Synagogue on Rosh Hashanah Eve
My neighbor announced that the following night would be Rosh Hashanah. Though I knew little of its significance, when he proposed that we all walk together to a synagogue, I agreed to join the group
My neighbor announced that the following night would be Rosh Hashanah. Though I knew little of its significance, when he proposed that we all walk together to a synagogue, I agreed to join the group
Parshah
The Solution Is in Your Hands!
Daily life may desensitize us from the beauty of Judaism. How do we rekindle that spark?
Daily life may desensitize us from the beauty of Judaism. How do we rekindle that spark?
How a Daily Meditation Puts the Impossible Within Easy Reach
Fix a time each day to study the words of inner Torah and ponder who G‑d is, what an awesome universe He has made, who you really are, and what is the relationship between your soul and the One Above.
Fix a time each day to study the words of inner Torah and ponder who G‑d is, what an awesome universe He has made, who you really are, and what is the relationship between your soul and the One Above.
“Clean Up and Carry On!”
Is living as a committed Jew difficult to you? Here's the answer from this week’s Torah portion.
Is living as a committed Jew difficult to you? Here's the answer from this week’s Torah portion.
Video
An Opportune Time
The Alter Rebbe compared the Almighty during the month of Elul to a king who goes out to the field to make himself accessible to all. And now, the King will soon return to His chambers.
The Alter Rebbe compared the Almighty during the month of Elul to a king who goes out to the field to make himself accessible to all. And now, the King will soon return to His chambers.
How to Paint a Tzedakah Box
Watch an art video showing how to make a beautiful painting of a Tzedakah pushke (charity box).
Watch an art video showing how to make a beautiful painting of a Tzedakah pushke (charity box).
Lifestyle
"He that kills a person accidentally... shall remain [exiled in the "city of refuge"] until the death of the High Priest" (Numbers 35:11, 25). Why is the High Priest to blame? ... Said a venerable old scholar: I heard an explanation at one of the seasonal lectures of Raba, that he failed to pray for his generation. As was the case of that fellow who was devoured by a lion some three parasangs from Rabbi Joshua ben Levi's town, and Elijah the Prophet refused to visit Rabbi Joshua on that account for three days...
— Talmud, Makot 11a
Print Magazine
More than 1,700 years in advance, the author of the Zohar predicted a revolution of science and technology around the year 1840. There he describes the fountains of wisdom bursting forth from the ground and flooding the earth—all in preparation for an era when the world shall be filled with wisdom and knowledge of the One...
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