E119 英文朗读 | A brief history of Rosh Hashanah

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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.

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A brief history of Rosh Hashanah, the kickoff to the Jewish New Year

00:11①Food, sound, prayer, reflection, celebration. Jewish people around the world will soon wish one another“Shanah tovah”(Hebrew for “good year”) during Rosh Hashanah, the observance of the Jewish New Year. 

00:32②Jewish people welcome the new year in September or October, not January, in observance of the lunisolar Hebrew calendar, and this holiday will mark the beginning of the year 5782 for Jews worldwide.

00:51③Hebrew for “head of the year,” Rosh Hashanah is a chance not just to celebrate and look ahead, but to consider the past and review one's relationship with God.

01:07④Though the holiday has been celebrated for thousands of years, its origins are murky. 

01:14⑤In the biblical passage, God tells Moses that the people of Israel should observe the first day of the seventh month as a day of rest and mark it with the blast of horns.

01:32⑥In the leadup to Rosh Hashanah, the shofar—a trumpet made from a ram or kosher animal' s horn—is regularly sounded in synagogues.

01:44⑦Symbolizing God, the cycles of the year, and the sustenance that lies ahead, a rounded challah loaf, often studded with raisins, is usually dipped in honey and eaten in a celebratory meal. So are apples, which represent hope for a sweet year ahead.

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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/history-traditions-rosh-hashanah