Rosh Hashanah

Night PART ONE The story takes place in 1941 Transylvanian. The narrator is a young boy of about 12 named Eliezer. He and his family are Orthodox Jews. Eliezer’s parents are very well respected shop owners. He also has two older sisters and a younger sister. Eliezer is a student of the Jewish scripture the Talmud. He also studies some mystical Jewish texts. This part of his studies does not have his father’s approval, but Eliezer has a teacher he likes in Moshe the Beadle. Unfortunately…

As a little star in the night sky so was Elie Wiesel with his book Night. Ever so different he describes himself and his family set out on the adventure from Sighet, Transylvania to the Auschwitz death camp. There, they were mentally and physically washed of their character, forgetting about who they really were.Elie was a survivor of the Holocaust in the midst of WWII. Tragically despite the fact that he could make due through the unfortunate occasions, his family was not ready to remain until…

The first question would be: How today’s modern Ashkenazi music is different considering to (Eastern) European music? According to research, culturally many religious Jews who lived Europe have kept their same traditions and customs fully over a long period of time which somehow they distinguished themselves from other European culture and religion. As a result, the music in Judaism in Europe kept alive. This religious music mostly knows as liturgical chant secrete songs in synagogue typically…

The first question is: How today’s modern Ashkenazi folk music is different considering to (Eastern) European music? According to research, culturally many religious Jews who lived Europe have kept their same traditions and customs fully over a long period of time, which somehow they distinguished themselves from other European culture and religion. As a result, the music in Judaism in Europe kept alive. This religious music mostly knows as liturgical chant sacred songs in synagogue typically in…

The novel Night is Elie Wiesel’s memoir that shows his traumatic experiences during the Holocaust and how the Holocaust changes him from a spiritual, sensitive young boy to a unspiritual, internally dead man. The changes that take place in Elie’s life are very evident as you read his memoir. The Holocaust began January, 30th 1933 and ended May, 8th 1945. These 13 long years were a life time for many jews, in this period of time they not only lost many family members and close friends, but many…

The memoir Night, written by Eliezer Wiesel, tells of the experiences that happened in the Nazi German concentration camps during the Holocaust. Elie is separated from his mother and three sisters early in the book. The book tells of the horrific experiences that he and his father must face together. There are several themes that can be identified in this book, but I will concentrate on the struggle with faith. Raised to be a faithful young man, Eliezer Wiesel’s faith is tested but never truly…

Honey tends to have lots of uses today. From health and medicine to religious uses as well. Such as Jewish New Year, also called Rosh Hashanah. It’s a tradition to eat apples and honey at the beginning of New Years. By eating them, Jews are asking for a sweet New Year. Without honey they would not be able to continue that tradition. As for the health use of honey. “Honey is used to treat…

Yom Kippur is “a Jewish high holy day observed on the 10th day of the month of Tishri by abstinence from food and drink and by the day long recitation of prayers of repentance in the synagogue.” Yom Kippur is viewed as one of the most important Jewish holidays. For centuries, people of Jewish religion celebrate Yom Kippur on Tishri; the seventh month on the Jewish religious calendar. Yom Kippur is known as “A Day of Atonement” and originates from the book of “Leviticus 23:27” which states that…

Genocide, the mass slaughter of a group of people based on who they are, can inflict unimaginable harm on the victimized people in many ways. One can not possibly quantify the grotesque, inhumane treatment witnessed in many genocides. Simultaneously, however, many victims are vulnerable to their identities being destroyed and only their will to survive being left intact. One whose identity is altered, even those fortunate enough to survive, still suffer immortally. Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust…

According to Rabbi Boras, Judaism is “the personal struggle to manifest oneself in the face of god while keeping one’s feet planted on the ground”. Similarly, Ehud Baron described religion in general as “an effort to connect what the universe is like to how people should live.” In fact Israel- which represents a culture, a faith, a place and the responsibility of the people- means to struggle with god. Jewish scholarship, history and practice define a particularly optimistic but always…