The countdown timers to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are ticking…

Question for dinner-table conversation: If a stranger were to ask you in an elevator, “What’s Rosh Hashanah,” what’s your elevator-pitch answer?

The Talmud is unequivocal on this point: Rosh Hashanah is not the Jewish New Year.

Don’t act so surprised—if you already knew everything about Rosh Hashanah, you wouldn’t need this book. But it may reassure you that the vast majority........

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