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Rosh hashana
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About this study
“Rosh hashana” is a free, 12-lesson study at advanced, created with soclever, a personal AI teacher. Each lesson takes a few minutes and ends with a check-in question; finish the curriculum and you can take a certificate test to earn a diploma. Starting is free once you sign in — or generate your own study on any topic. Shared by @jjea.
What you'll learn
- What is Rosh Hashana. Rosh Hashana doesn't appear in the Torah as the "New Year." The biblical text in Leviticus 23 calls it Yom Teruah — the Day of Blasting — and places it on the first of Tishrei,…
- The Shofar and Its Sounds. Most people know the shofar is blown on Rosh Hashana — the Jewish New Year — but the sequence isn't arbitrary noise. Miss the prescribed order or count, and the obligation is…
- Coronating the King: Chabad's Theology of Malchuyot. Without the annual re-coronation of God on Rosh Hashana, the Chabad framework holds that creation does not merely drift — it actively loses its source of vitality. The Tanya…
- Tzimtzum, Hishtalshelus, and the New Year's Cosmic Reset. The Arizal forced the problem into focus in 16th-century Safed: if God is infinite, where does a finite world fit? His answer — tzimtzum, a self-contraction of the Ohr Ein Sof —…
Questions this study answers
- Why does the Torah call Rosh Hashana the first day of the seventh month rather than the first month, and how did rabbinic tradition resolve that tension?
- Why do some congregations blow Shevarim and Teruah as a single breath unit while others separate them, and what is the source of that disagreement?
- In Chabad's framework, why is human acceptance of God's kingship on Rosh Hashana not just a ritual gesture but a functional cause of creation receiving its annual flow of life-force?
- According to Chabad Kabbalistic teaching, why does the world's continued existence depend specifically on what happens on Rosh Hashana, rather than on a one-time act of creation?
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