[INFO] Jewish Holidays((( UNDER CONSTRUCTION )))

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ROSH HASHANA (Tishrei 1):
-Literally "the head of the year." It's Hebrew Calendar New Years.
Rosh Hashana of 2009 Gregorian Calendar= Rosh Hashana of 5770 Hebrew Calendar.

-A Baal-T'kiah will blow the Shofar: Tekiah, Shevarim, Teruah, Tekiah Gedolah.
Shofar blasts also precede this holiday.

-Customs include eating the Fish Head(Fish are prolific and that is a good blessing, also eating the head is symbolic of being the head and not the tail in the year to come, so to speak)and eating the Pomegranate(So many seeds, so many blessings).

-Parshat Vayera, specifically Akedat Yitzhak(the binding of Isaac) is typically read.  

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SIMCHAT TORAH:
-Literally "Joy of the Torah"

-The whole entire Torah scroll is unrolled and typically held out in a big circle from start to finish, with the congregation sitting in the middle of the circle.




SUKKOT:
-Literally "Booths."
-While wandering in the desert after the Exodus from Egypt, the Israelites were nomads. They set up temporary booth homes, which they would dissemble and reassemble each day as they walked through the desert.

-To remember this, we set up booths like this on Sukkot. A Sukkah booth has 4 sides and must have 2 1/2 to 4 closed sides. It may not have a complete roof, as one should be able to see stars through it. The typical roof, made of long branches, is known as סכד