Rosh Chodesh Service
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“Then
at the beginning of each of your months
you shall present
a burnt offering to HaShem…”
– Numbers 28:11
“…on the first days of your months,
you shall blow the
trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices
of your peace offerings; and they shall be as a reminder
of you before your God.
I am HaShem your God.”
– Numbers 10:10 |
Join us as we corporately usher in the Jewish months.
In the spring and summer we open the first seven months
with a Park Event . Please see
the events
calendar for the date, time, and location of the next Rosh Chodesh Service!
Rosh Chodesh (head of the month) is the day a
new Jewish month begins. A new month begins when the first crescent of the
new moon appears in the sky. Rosh Chodesh is also considered a minor festival.
Because the Jewish calendar is based on the cycles of
the moon and then adjusted according to the seasons, Jewish months begin on
the new moon. In biblical times, the Israelites made sacrificial offerings
and blew the Shofar (ram's horn) to mark the day. In rabbinic times,
bonfires were lit on mountaintops to announce the arrival of the new moon.
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