Rosh Hashanah: Happy, Healthy, Sweet New Year!
Dear Friend,
Every week, we at Chabad.org send our magazine direct from our outbox to your inbox. Chances are you get many of our other emails as well. Like regular pen-pals, we write to you, and you often write back with question, comments, and critique. It is strange to think that we don’t know what each other look like, yet we are true friends, who share so much over the years.
As Rosh Hashanah approaches, we want to share with you – our good friend – our sincere wishes for the coming year. So here goes:
May you, your family, and your friends be inscribed and sealed in the book of life for a good sweet year! May this coming year bring only joy, fulfillment and good things. And of course, may this be the best year of all with the arrival of Moshiach, who will usher in the final redemption and unite us all in Israel.
Shanah tovah!
From your friends at Chabad.org
Rosh Hashanah, first of the High Holidays, is the Jewish New Year. It is the anniversary of the creation of Adam and Eve, and a day of judgment and coronation of G‑d as king.
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Sometimes the cloud would be upon the Tabernacle for a number of days, and by G-d's command they encamped, and by G-d's command they journeyed.
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