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This Sunday night is Rosh Hashanah, or the Jewish New Year. Here’s everything you need to know about how Judaism celebrates its new year.

Rosh Hashanah, literally means “start of the year” and always takes place on the first two days of Tishrei, the first month of the Hebrew calendar.

What year is it?

Judaism has its own calendar that, unlike the solar Gregorian calendar most countries use, the Hebrew calendar is a lunisolar calendar. That means months are based around the phases of the moon, but also an extra month is added every two or three years to keep it in line with the solar calendar.

The final month of the Hebrew calendar is 29 Elul which is from the evening of 24 September to 25 September. In the Hebrew calendar, days begin at sunset of the previous day.

So the 1 Tishrei and the Jewish New Year starts on nightfall of Sunday 25 September this year.

The Hebrew calendar also puts its year 0 way earlier than the Gregorian calendar.

While the Gregorian calendar places year 0 as the year Jesus Christ was supposedly born, the Hebrew calendar’s year 0 is when 12th century Jewish philosopher Maimonides calculated the creation of the world.

Via Euronews: It’s Jewish New Year: but what is Rosh Hashanah? https://www.euronews.com/culture/2022/09/25/its-jewish-new-year-but-what-is-rosh-hashanah