Rosh Hashanah Begins Sundown Sunday

Rosh Hashanah begins at sun down on Sunday, Sept 13.

Framingham Public Schools will be closed on Monday and Tuesday to observe the Jewish high holiday.

Rosh Hashanah is a fall festival celebrating the start of the Jewish New Year.

“The central observance of Rosh Hashanah is the sounding of the shofar, the ram’s horn, which also represents the trumpet blast of a people’s coronation of their king. The cry of the shofar is also a call to repentance, for Rosh Hashanah is also the anniversary of man’s first sin and his repentance thereof, and serves as the first of the 10 Days of Repentance, which culminate in Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement” (Sept.23), according to Chabad.org.

Other symbolic events during the holiday is eating a piece of apple dipped in honey, to symbolize a desire for a sweet year and Tashlich, a special prayer said near a body of water (an ocean, river, pond, etc.), to cast one’s sins into the depths of the sea.

Services will be held at Temple Beth Am and Temple Beth Sholom in Framingham.