Rosh Ha Shannah

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Since sun down it has been a new year.
Go to a person you love and that you have hurt and tell them from the depth of your heart how sorry you are.
You do not have to post anything here

― anthonys david ., Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ah, but I will, simply to say -- welcome, David. :-)

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

L'Shanah Tovah! (That's "happy new year" for all y'all goyim out there.)

― bnw, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

L'Shanah Tovah to you (and all other Jewish peeps) too!

― Kris, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Good argument for cultural plurality = multiple New Year celebrations!

― Tom, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes but Jewish festivities never seem to involve presents, chocolate, time off work or vast amounts of binge drinking & TV specials. As far as I can make out they involve fasting or eating salt and eggs. I blame my mum for failing to pass on my Jewish heritage and instead embracing baked hams, Stilton and Quality Street at Xmas.

― Emma, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my new year fall somewhere in mid to late august.

― Ed, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes but Jewish festivities never seem to involve presents...

Huh? I thought you got presents on every day of Hannukah? Surely that makes up for it!

― Kris, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Emmy - you are missing all the fun stuff. We get days off work for holidays we aren't even sure how to pronounce. We get presents and chocolate (hello, hanukkah geld). And we get drunk off Manishevitz wine that tastes so much like grape juice you can handle the stuff when you're 13.

― bnw, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hanukkah presents: Either really tiny presents or just one 'real' present anyway.

Rosh Ha Shannah: Not as fun/depressing as the secular version of New Year, Manishevitz and all.

To all those I have hurt in any way: Sorry. Oops. Peace. How about some cheap, 'suitable-for-minors' wine?

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

As far as I can make out they involve fasting...

Fasting? That's one measly day. The rest is all pig out (scuze the expression). I read somewhere that the average weight gain over Pesach was 15 pounds.

Also, on Christian holidays we celebrate by going to Chinese restaurants. This is due to a little known (to Gentiles) passage in Leviticus, I think it is, that says that all dietary laws are suspended when you eat at a Chinese restaurant. So we can load up on shrimp and pork.

― Frank Kogan, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

San Francisco is legendary for the Chinese restaurant/Jewish family combination for the Christian holidays, as I suspect is New York as well. One Christmas I intend to dine at the best place possible in the Bay Area with the right kind of merry crowd, because I figure that would just so rock. Says the lapsed goyim.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Christmas Eve = Chinese food. Christmas Day = Jewish day at the movies! (Emmy = Emma in my above typo i.e. not intentional...)

And I used to get Hanukkah presents and Christmas presents so neener neener.

― bnw, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

vast amount of binge drinking

Wait, there's a Jewish holiday based on this, though unobservant Jew that I am, I forget its name.

― Frank Kogan, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I must be hanging with the wrong Jewish crowd, all my Jewish relatives are the world's biggest lightweights and for them binge drinking would be having more than 2 glasses of wine with dinner. And I fear that if I suggested to my boss that he give me Jewish holidays off, he might insist I come in over Xmas. Grr.

― Emma, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, what I mean is there's a holiday where the Jewish men are supposed to get plastered, in synagogue.

― Frank Kogan, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I believe you mean Purim.

― bnw, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

nineteen years pass...

Bump to recognize the high holy day.

― it is to laugh, like so, ha! (Aimless), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 02:18 (four years ago)

Thanks. L'shana Tovah

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 02:59 (four years ago)

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