Rosh Hashanah: The Biblical Threshold Into a New Season

The Feast of Trumpets, or “Rosh Hashanah” (“head of the year”), has become more recently known for its controversial claim to be the start of a new year. In Jewish tradition, it’s the time when the year crosses over from 5786 to 5787 in the rabbinic counting system. It’s like a threshold. With Yom Kippur, […] The post Rosh Hashanah: The Biblical Threshold Into a New Season appeare

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction…”