Why is the holiday called “Rosh Hashanah” and not “the beginning of the year”?

Why is the holiday that opens the new year called “Rosh Hashana” and not “the beginning of the year”?

There is a reason for this. The word “head” refers to the most important organ in the human body – the head, which is the operator and navigator of all the body’s actions. Therefore, Rosh Hashanah as the beginning of a year is also the most important day of the year. Just as a person’s body is lacking when the head is not functioning, so is the most important day of the year – Rosh Hashanah.

Rosh Hashanah is the day when all the things that will happen to a person during the whole year are determined in the sky. This is a very important day. Therefore, we use every moment during the most important day for good things.

On Rosh Hashanah they often recite Psalms and Torah words and try to win Jews as much as possible by blowing the shofar.

The blowing of the shofar reminds us of the great day of true and complete redemption, a day when a great shofar will be blown in the sky, and it is also called the Great Judgment Day, when God will judge all the nations for the deeds they have committed against the people of Israel during the past generations.

The one who uses Rosh Hashanah in the best possible way, with holiness, with effort and with love for Israel – may God bless him with a good and sweet new year.

Indeed, after everything we went through as a collective, as one people, in the past year, with God’s help, we will all have a good and sweet year, a year of redemption, a year of joy, health and success.

I wish from the bottom of my heart, Shem Tov Aberbi.

Holiday entry and exit times:

Jerusalem
Entrance of the holiday: 17:47
Holiday departure: 18:56
Tel Aviv
Entrance of the holiday: 18:06
Holiday departure: 18:58
Haifa
Entrance of the holiday: 17:56
Holiday departure: 18:57
Netanya
Entrance of the holiday: 17:54
Holiday departure: 18:46
Hadera
Entrance of the holiday: 17:53
Holiday departure: 18:46
Afula
Entrance of the holiday: 17:52
Holiday departure: 18:44
Nahariya
Entrance of the holiday: 17:53
Holiday departure: 18:45
Acre
Entrance of the holiday: 17:53
Holiday departure: 18:45
Carmiel
Entrance of the holiday: 17:52
Holiday departure: 18:44