Rosh Hashanah

9/10/26 Additional Readings:

Rosh Hashana
Torah: Genesis 21:1-34;Numbers 29:1-6
Prophets: Hosea 14:2-10; Joel 2:15-27*
Gospel: Matthew 18:21-35*

Our faith celebrates the Festival of Trumpets as a New Year's Day. Rosh HaShanah literally means “Head of the Year” because the first day of the seventh month is regarded as the biblical new year. The festival’s main feature is the blowing of the ram’s horn trumpet, i.e., the shofar.

The Torah portion for Rosh HaShanah tells the story of the conception and birth of Isaac. The haftarah echoes the Torah portion with another story of the LORD miraculously granting a barren woman a son. The Talmud records a tradition that the LORD remembered Sarah, Rachel, and Hannah on Rosh HaShanah and unlocked their wombs on that day.

TORAH: Genesis 21:1-34

PROPHETS: 1 Samuel 1:1-2:10

GOSPEL: Matthew 24:29-36