November 30, 2009
Welcome back from Break!
Rosh Hashanah
Rosh Hashanah (ראש השנה transliterated ro’sh hash-shānāh, "beginning of the year") is the Jewish spiritual New Year. The Mishnah, the core work of the Jewish oral law, sets this day aside as the new year for calculating calendar years and sabbatical and jubilee years.
This holiday is part of the Yamim Noraim (Hebrew, "Days of Awe"); the Yamim Noraim are a ten day period which begins with Rosh Hashanah, followed by the days of repentance, and end with the holiday of Yom Kippur.
2009 High Holiday Services at
The Blacksburg Jewish Community Center
Rosh Hashanah
Fri., Sept 18
8 PM–Erev Rosh Hashanah
Cake and socializing downstairs after the service.
Sat. Sept 19
9:30 AM–First Day Rosh Hashanah
8 PM–Second evening service
Sun. Sept 20
9:30 AM–Second Day Rosh Hashanah
Sun. Sept. 27
6:30 PM–Kol Nidrei
Mon. Sept. 28
9:30 AM–Yom Kippur morning
5:45 PM–Afternoon Discussion
6:45 PM–Closing Neilah service
(followed by break-the-fast meal in the Graduate Life Center.)