Rosh Hashanah
L’Shana Tova – Wishing You A Happy & Sweet New Year
Celebrate the New Year with Kosher Create! Create healthy & delicious dishes that will enhance your holiday including yummy homemade desserts!
2 complete menus are waiting for you at the bottom of the post with links to free detailed recipes.
We hope that these celebratory meals will be a prelude to many festive, tasty & healthy meals throughout the upcoming year.
Wishing you a Happy, Healthy & Sweet New Year!
Rosh Hashanah – The Jewish New Year
The Four holidays of the Jewish month of Tishre
Rosh Hashanah Symbols – Simanim
Rosh Hashanah – The Jewish New Year
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is observed on the first and second days of the Jewish month Tishre. It denotes the beginning of the Jewish High Holidays. According to Jewish tradition, Rosh Hashanah commemorates the anniversary of the world’s creation and symbolically marks its birthday and that of mankind.
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, ushers in a unique period of time. It is the first among the four holidays of the Jewish month of Tishre.
The Four holidays of the Jewish month of Tishre
ROSH HASHANAH celebrates the creation of the world and mankind. It is marked by prayer, reflection and seeking forgiveness.
It is followed by YOM KIPPUR, the day of introspection and atonement.
The holidays of Tishre continue with SUKKOT that commemorates the Jews’ redemption from Egyptian slavery.
SIMCHAT TORAH ensues with the celebration of the Torah, the Jewish Bible.
Rosh Hashanah Customs
Rosh Hashanah is observed through earnest prayers in the synagogue. The ram’s horn, shofar, is blown as a reminder to aspire for a deeper faith.
Festive meals are served and round sweet challah, i.e. traditional Jewish bread, is dipped in honey in hope for a circular happy and sweet new year. The genuine wish for a sweet new year is also expressed through a common custom of dipping apples in honey. On the second night, it is also customary to include a new seasonal fruit.
Rosh Hashanah dishes are notable for their symbolism: many for their sweet taste; some for their shape and others for their phonetic sound that correlates with hopes for the coming new year. Special blessings are recited over a selection of foods (Simanim). These foods encapsulate the new year wishes and as such are often incorporated in this holiday’s cooking. Though traditions vary, the core remains the same and has been perpetuated through the ages.
Round CHALLAH dipped in honey symbolizes a circular, happy and sweet new year.
APPLE dipped in honey represents the hope for a sweet new year.
DATES are one of Shiv’at HaMinim, i.e., the seven species that the Land of Israel was blessed with. The blessing recited relates to the end of our enemies and those that seek our bad fortune.
POMEGRANATE is one of the Shiv’at HaMinim, i.e., the seven species that the Land of Israel was blessed with. It symbolizes the wish to be blessed with many merits corresponding to the pomegranate’s multiple seeds.
PUMPKIN or SQUASH symbolize the hope to rip an evil decree.
BLACK EYED PEAS symbolize our wish to enhance our merits.
LEEKS symbolize the hope that our enemies will be blotted out.
BEETS symbolize the hope that our enemies will be banished.
FISH symbolize the hope to multiply and be plentiful.
CARROTS symbolize the hope that only good decrees will descend upon us.
SESAME symbolizes the hope to multiply and be plentiful.
FIGS are one of the Shiv’at HaMinim, i.e., the seven species that the Land of Israel was blessed with. They symbolize the hope that our year will be as sweet as a fig.
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Wholegrain Honey Raisin Challah
Chicken Soup – Lean Chicken
Wholegrain Matzah Balls Kneidlach
Sweet Potato Dumplings – Gluten Free
Roasted Chicken & Apple Flower – Lean Chicken
Sweet Potato & Carrot Tzimmes – Vegan & Gluten Free
Kugel – Apple Noodle Casserole – Wholegrain Noodles
Lentil Spread – Vegan “Chopped Liver”- Gluten Free
Apple Cinnamon Cupcakes – Gluten Free
Wholegrain Spelt & Oat Challah – Vegan
Semolina Dumplings – Wholegrain
Roasted Honey Chicken – Lean Chicken
Wholegrain Rice & Carrots – Vegan & Gluten Free
Green Olives & Tomato Salad – Vegan & Gluten Free
Balsamic Beet Salad – Gluten Free
Semolina Almond Orange Cake – Wholegrain
Almond Orange Cake – Gluten Free
