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On Rosh Hashana we go to the temple. We pray to God for a
new year of happiness and peace. We thank God for all the
good things that have happened in the year that has just passed.
We try to remember anything we have done wrong to anybody.
We think about the things that are wrong with the world especially about people in trouble. We think about people who
are out of work, who are sick, who are too poor to buy enough
food for their families or too poor to have a place to call home.
When we hear the shrill sound of the shofar we think about
these things - and we pray that we'll be able to help people in
trouble, to help make the world a better place for everybody.
At the end of the synagogue service,
we turn to our neighbours and wish
them a Happy New Year.
At home, Rosh Hashana begins with the lighting of the candles
and singing of the Kiddush. On the table is a round challah and
a bowl of apple slices and a dish of honey. The round challah is
a symbol of a year of happiness without end. We did the slices
of apple into the honey and eat it, with a wish that we shall have
a good and sweet New Year, a year of happiness.
Rosh Hashana is the Jewish New Year. Jewish people go to
Synagogues to pray for happiness, health and peace in the
coming year. In the Synagogue the shofar is blown. Long ago,
the ram's horn was blown to tell Jews that the New Year was
coming. When they heard it, all the people came together to
pray. Today we still blow the shofar.
At home we dip apples in honey and
challah in honey, as a symbol of our
hope that the coming year will be a
sweet and joyous one.
Other holiday treats include honey
cookies and cake and a round challah
with raisins.
The round challah
signifies a year without end.
Cards are sent to family and friends to
wish everyone a healthy New Year.
Rosh = Beginning
Shana = Year
Rosh Hashana = Beginning/New Year
Shofar = Ram's Horn
L'Shana Tova = Happy New Year
Apples and honey
for Rosh Hashana
Apples and honey
for Rosh Hashana
A good year,
a sweet year
Apples and honey
for Rosh Hashana
L'Shana Tova
L'Shana Tova
Happy New Year
I sing to you
L'Shana Tov
L'shana Tova
Happy New Year
I sing to you
The Shofar Man
When I grow up and if I can
I'd like to be a shofar man
And I would make the strangest sound
With grown-ups standing all around.
TA ROO ROO ROO.....
Too Too Too
Too Too Too
The shofar blows so loud
Shana Tova to everyone
Shana Tove le Aba
Shana Tova le Ima
Shana Tova, Shana Tova
Le Kol ha mishpacha
The Old Year's Gone
A year has gone
A New Year has come
We clap our hands in the air
Shana Tova to you Aba
Shana Tove dear Ima
Shana Tova, Shana Tova
I LIKE TO EAT APPLES & HONEY
(to the tune of: Apples & Bananas)
I like to eat, eat, eat, apples and honey (2x)
Repeat, replacing vowels: A,E,I,O,U
I like to ate, ate, ate, aaples and haaney
FARMER BROWN
Farmer Brown had 5 red apples hanging on a tree
Farmer Brown had 5 red apples hanging on a tree
So he took one apple and he ate it hungrily
And there were 4 red apples hanging on a tree
(Repeat until no apples)
HERE IS THE BEEHIVE
Here is the beehive, where are the bees?
They are inside where nobody sees.
See them come flying out of the hive:
One, two, three, four, five.
Bzz, bzz, bzz, bzz, bzz, bzz, bzz, bzz, bzz (2x)
Here is the beehive, where are the bees?
They are outside where everyone sees.
See them come flying back to the hive:
One, two, three, four, five.
DINGLE DANGLE DAIRY ME
Dingle dangle dairy me, apples on the apple tree
Falling down on (child's name) head
Dingle dangle dairy me.
(child's name) is coming down the street
With letters 1, 2, 3
I think they're Shana Tova cards
Oh look, there's one for (child's name)
To the tune of "Down at the Station"
Early in the morning at 8 o'clock
you can hear the letter carrier, knock, knock, knock
Up jumps (child's name) and runs to the door
one letter, two letters, three letters, four!
Honey Cookies
Apple Crisp
1 cup butter
1/4 cup sugar
4 tbsp honey
2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup flour
1 cup oats
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup melted margarine
apples, sliced
Cream butter, sugar and honey.
Add flour slowly. Mix thoroughly to
a smooth dough. Chill in fridge for
2 hours. Roll out on wax paper to
1/2 inch thick. Shape with cookie
cutters. Place on ungreased cookie
sheet. Bake at 300F for 25 mins.
Mix flour, oats, sugar and margarine well with fork until it resembles crumbs. Place sliced
apples in baking dish and
sprinkle a little water over apples
to moisten. Spread mixture on
top. Bake at 400F for 25-30 mins.
Apple Cake
1/4 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 egg
3 cups apples, cubed
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 cup flour
Cream shortening and sugar. Beat in egg. Add
apples. Stirin the rest of the ingredients. Bake in
a greased 8" x 8" baking pan at 350F for 45 mins.
Baruch attah adonaye eloheynu melech ha olam asher
keedishanu bameetzvotav vitzeevanu le hadleek ner
shell yom tov. AMEN.
Blessed art though O Lord our God, King of the
Universe, who commands us to kindle the holiday
lights. AMEN.
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Baruch attah adonaye eloheynu melech ha olam boray
pree hagafen. AMEN.
Blessed art though O Lord our God, King of the
Universe., who creates the fruit of the vine. AMEN.
Hamotzee lechem meen ha-aretz
We give thanks to God for bread
Our voices raise in song together
As our prayer is humbly said.
Baruch attah adonaye eloheynu melech ha olam
hamotzee lechem meen ha-aretz. AMEN.
Baruch attah adonaye eloheynu melech ha olam
boray pree ha aytz. AMEN.
Blessed art thou O Lord our God, King of the
Universe, who creates the fruit of the tree. AMEN.