Shannah Tovah!

David Taub

Literally, it means “have a good new year” in Hebrew. Tonight (Monday), the Jewish world celebrates Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and start of the High Holiday season.

The Jewish New Year is not celebrated with champagne and revelry, but with apples and honey for sweetness, or maybe a brisket — top round this year in my household. There will be blasts of the shofar, the ram horn instrument replicating the sound of crying for our sins.

Like many Jews, I don’t fully understand the Hebrew calendar. I know that the High Holidays always fall in September or October; Hanukkah is usually in December — except that one time it was on Thanksgiving; and Passover is sometime in March or April.

At a High Holiday sermon several years ago, my Rabbi reminded the congre

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