Rosh Hashanah Check List
Prepare for Rosh Hashanah 5785 - 2024
Prior to Rosh Hashanah
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Purchase:
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Sweet apples
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Honey
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New Fruit
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Head of fish
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Pomegranates
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Gift for family
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Other foods connected with abundance and sweetness i.e. carrots
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Enough candles for 2 days of Rosh Hashanah
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Long burning candles (at least 48 hours)
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Round, sweet, raisin Challah
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General Cooking Tips
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Cook without vinegar, and in general avoid sharp, sour foods
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We also do not eat nuts on Rosh Hashanah
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Beginning of Rosh Hashanah, Wednesday night
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Before sundown, light a long burning candle (Yohrtzeit candle)
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Light Holiday candles. Candle lighting time is 7:10 p.m. (say Shabbat and Holiday Blessing, as well as she’he’chiyanu.
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After Arvit, evening prayer, wish all to be inscribed and sealed for a good year, see machzor for exact wording for men and women.
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Kiddush- special for Rosh Hashana
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Wash your hands ritually for Challah
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Say the regular bracha, cut and dip into honey and eat
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Cut another piece and dip into salt
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Cut up apple and dip into honey
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Make bracha … borei pri ha’etz DON’T EAT YET
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Say special Yehi Ratzon found in the Machzor
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NOW eat your apple dipped in honey
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Eat part of the head of a fish
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During this meal eat other foods that are connected with abundance and sweetness etc. i.e. carrots (tzimmes), pomegranates
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Thursday Night | Second Night of Rosh Hashanah
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Begin preparation for meal AFTER night fall, 8:09 p.m.
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Place new fruit on table before lighting candles
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Light Holiday candles from a pre existing flame, making blessing for Holiday and She’he’chiyanu. When saying she’he’chiyanu, have in mind the new fruit you will eat at the meal.
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Before washing for Challah, all should partake of the new fruit, eat enough to make an after bracha.
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Make an after bracha for the fruit
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Wash for the Challah, and like yesterday, dip into honey first, then dip into salt.
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Enjoy the rest of your meal like on a regular Holiday, no need to add the ‘symbolic foods’ as in the first night. We still do not eat sharp, sour foods or nuts.
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SHANA TOVAH UMETUKA!
THIS YEAR IN JERUSALEM!
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