Erev Yom Teruah / Rosh Hashana Service

Rosh Hashana 2024 / רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה 5785

The Jewish New Year 🍏🍯

Rosh Hashana for Hebrew Year 5785 begins at sundown on Wednesday, 2 October 2024, and ends at nightfall on Friday, 4 October 2024.

Rosh Hashanah (Hebrew: ראש השנה), (literally “head of the year”), is the Jewish New Year. It is the first of the High Holidays or Yamim Noraim (“Days of Awe”), observed ten days before Yom Kippur. Rosh Hashanah is observed on the first two days of Tishrei, the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar. It is described in the Torah as יום תרועה (Yom Teruah, a day of sounding [the Shofar]).

Torah Portion: Genesis 21:1-34; Numbers 29:1-6