Lashana Tovah

Daniel_Bingamon · Post by **Daniel_Bingamon** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 9:53 pm

Lashana Tovah - Happy New Year

(Jewish New Year - Rosh Hashannah)

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 10:30 pm

jkrazy52 · Post by **jkrazy52** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 11:36 pm

Happy New Year, Daniel!

(... Walden, translate please for the Hebrew-challenged. It won't copy over to a translator

)

~Judy

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 11:54 pm

jkrazy52 wrote: Walden, translate please

From Leviticus 23, "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation."

jkrazy52 · Post by **jkrazy52** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 11:59 pm

Thank you! Your talents are beyond measure.

~Judy

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 3:38 am

May this be a year of reflection, growth and prosperity to all. Happy new year to our Jewish brothers and sisters.

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 5:28 am

L'shanah Tovah to Daniel and all my other Jewish friends on C&F-- hope your holiday season is fulfilling and meaningful.
One of the Jewish customs that I love takes place during this week. Between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, we are supposed to ask family, friends and other acquaintences for forgiveness for any wrongs we may have done to them in the past year. The idea is that God won't give us forgiveness unless we have first recieved it from those people we have wronged. This includes unintentional or even unknown offenses, so in the spirit of the holiday season, if I've offended or hurt anyone here in the past year, I apologize, and ask your forgiveness. Thanks

greenspiderweb · Post by **greenspiderweb** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 7:39 am

Yes, Happy New Year, all!

carrie · Post by **carrie** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 8:02 am

brewerpaul wrote:The idea is that God won't give us forgiveness unless we have first recieved it from those people we have wronged.

I was taught (by a reform rabbi) that if we aren't forgiven the first time we asked people we had wronged, we need to ask again, and then again if necessary. But it they won't forgive us after three (sincere) tries, we can consider ourselves square nonetheless.

Every year my kids and I go to the banks of a little river near our house, choose a stick, imagine putting all our transgressions from the past year on it, hold them in our mind for a moment, and then toss the stick into the water and watch it float away.

L'Shanah Tovah! May you be inscribed and sealed in the Book of Life!

Carol

Unseen122 · Post by **Unseen122** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 11:20 am

Thanks. L'shana Tovah everyone.

PhilO · Post by **PhilO** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 2:25 pm

A happy and forgiving new year to all.

Philo

Daniel_Bingamon · Post by **Daniel_Bingamon** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 3:02 pm

brewerpaul wrote:The idea is that God won't give us forgiveness unless we have first recieved it from those people we have wronged. This includes unintentional or even unknown offenses, so in the spirit of the holiday season, if I've offended or hurt anyone here in the past year, I apologize, and ask your forgiveness. Thanks

This concept is also is very similar to the New Testaments's concept that God won't give us forgiveness unless we forgive others.

S'lach Lanu, Mikol Lanu, Kaper Lanu.

Daniel_Bingamon · Post by **Daniel_Bingamon** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 7:31 pm

Any Rosh Hashannah songs for tinwhistle? Avinu Malkenu has too much half-holing.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 10:35 pm

I follow all the festival days and was wondering about that as well. I can still play Ava Naguila ( dont know the spelling sorry ) on the Guirar because that was the first tune I managed to play well on it!

Don'f forget to be working on all the bad things that need fixing ! Yom Kippur is comming next!

:0)

Daniel_Bingamon · Post by **Daniel_Bingamon** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 6:50 am

They call the days in-between, "The Day of Awe". At time for preparation for Yom Kippur.

Hava Nagila, uses several black notes on the piano. Verse: E E G# F E G# G# B A G A A C b a G# F E F G

Has anyone read the Tara Publications book, "Beyond Hava Nagila" it has some great information on the history of Jewish Music.
One of my favorite stories in the book is about the song, "Un az der Rebbe Zingt". The paid musicians one day wrote a song that was making fun of the congregation 'chasidim', since they would do everything the Rabbi did. They heard the musicians playing that song one day and they loved it. Now it's a part of tradition.