Day 163
Today is Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the Jewish new year. As I have mentioned in a previous post, I was raised in a non practicing Jewish household and my husband was raised in a non-practicing Christian household, and we are currently raising our sons in a non-practicing household. Through the years when the boys have asked “what religion is our family?” we have responded with some form of “Our religion is that it is important to be a good person and be good to others. This is the essence of most religions.” This is part of the reason for this blog project; we want kindness to be something we do, not just something we say we do.
One of the traditions of Rosh Hashanna is to enjoy apples and honey, which symbolizes the harvest of the old year and wishes for the sweetness of the new year. So our non-practicing household celebrated in our own way, by making candied apples, the kind with the red coating that sticks in your teeth (and incidentally, all over the stove) and the boys brought some to our neighbors, with wishes for a happy new year.
L'Shanah Tovah!
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