#tishrei

[cata613]

This week, explained:

[extollingtheeveryday]

Susan Hahn // "Between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur" (1991)

[todaysjewishholiday]

Hello! I created this blog to share my joy in the Jewish calendar and Jewish history and Jewish diversity and complexity and humor and resilience.

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[zebratoys]

From Biblical times to this day, Sukkot Holiday is full of excitement and glory. Days of Joy, Festivity, tribalhood and Celebrations. It shines happiness and blessings of love and unity within and among our tribe. I get all excited when thinking that since ancient times, Am Yisrael has been keeping the commandment of building a Sukkah, and making a pilgrimage to the Holy Temple in the Holy City of Jerusalem. I love to elevate this sensation.

[septembergold]

Wisdom depicted in a Fibonacci spiral. Month of Tishrei aka Ethanim (laugh) 1 King 8:2 6-11-23

[jewishpolls]

I was looking in Google Calendar and saw tishrei spelled tishri and assumed it was a typo, but apparently that's a thing??

Which one do you use

tishrei

tishri

both

sometime else

see results

Voting ended onSep 8, 2024

[magnetothemagnificent]

The common wish during the months of Elul and Tishrei is "יְהִי רָצוֹן מִלְפָנֶיךָ שֶׁתְּחַדֵשׁ עָלֵינוּ שָׁנָה טוֹבָה וּמְתוּקָה" (Yehi Ratzon Milfanecha Sh'Techadesh Aleinu Shana Tova U'Metukah)- "May it be Your Will that You renew upon us a good and sweet year", or just abbreviated to "שָׁנָה טוֹבָה וּמְתוּקָה" (Shana Tova U'Metukah)- "Good and sweet year".

The usual English translation of this is "Have a happy and sweet new year", but "טוֹבָה" (Tova) means "good", not happy. "שמחה" (Smecha) means happy.

I think this English translation is missing something crucial. We don't wish eachother a happy new year, we wish eachother a good new year.

Sometimes there are good things that happen in our lives that we might not be immediately happy about. We may break up with a toxic relationship, we may move to a new place, we may have new and uncertain changes that don't make us feel happy immediately, but ultimately turn out good for us.

On the flip side, there might be bad things that happen in our lives that make us feel happy initially. We may start a bad relationship that feels happy in the beginning, we may do things that make us feel happy in the beginning, but ultimately aren't good for us. Sometimes, initial happiness is deceptive.

While it's important to be happy, we shouldn't forget that sometimes bad things can make us feel happy in the beginning. But we don't want bad things to happen, we want good things. Even if the good things don't make us feel happy at first.

Hashem decides what our year has in store for us, and we want a good year. It might not be happy at first, but it's good. And we add on the "וּמְתוּקָה" (U'Metukah)- "and sweet", because we know that not all good things feel happy, but we don't want them to be totally upsetting. So we want even the complicated, difficult good things to be sweet, too. To take off the edge.

That's why we say "שָׁנָה טוֹבָה וּמְתוּקָה" and not "שנה שמחה".

May we all have a good and sweet new year.

[achos-laazov]

Got Yom Kippur sorted (baruch Hashem for sisters that are not Bas Mitzvah yet) and now to worry about Succos. We need a succah this year. Finally!! It’s nice to have a place to build one and not to have to be away for an entire ten days... but we have to either dig my in-laws extra succah out of their garage, or buy one.