#rosh hashanah
b’rosh Hashanah yikatevun
uv'Yom Tzom Kippur yechateimun
Jacob wrestling with the angel,Rosh Hashanah(Jewish New Year)postcard with illustration by Ephraim Moses Lilien, early 20th century (1918?), 14 x 9 cm, private collection.
“תִּכְלֶה שָׁנָה וְקִלְלוֹתֶיהָ, תָּחֵל שָׁנָה וּבִרְכוֹתֶיהָ”
Shana Tova שנה טובה
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L'SHANAH TOVA Y'ALL
Shanah Tovah!
Have a happy and healthy 5779!
UGH. when the time on your shul’s handout that said maariv & havdala was at 7:30 really meant that they were starting maariv then but that havdala wasn’t actually until 7:37, so you did it early.
LIFNEI EIVER IS A THING.
(Messaged one of the ritual comitte because this needs to not happen. So upset.)
Jewish Book Council found this scrumptious recipe forApple-Stuffed Challah in Rosie Daykin’s collection of recipes for special occasions from Vancouver’s Butter Baked Goods, new cookbook. It’s the perfect twist to add to your repertoire and table for the Jewish High Holidays!
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Wondering what to read over the Jewish High Holidays starting next week? Check out this year’s 10 Awesome Books for the 10 Days of Awe recommended by the Jewish Book Council!
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Shavuah Tov, friends! The Days of Awesome fic Challenge opens in 11 days! We hope you’re getting your writing muscles good and ready!
As promised, we did want to provide a few prompts to help get you thinking about the spirit of the upcoming holidays!
As a reminder, these prompts are entirely optional. You do not need to use any of them to participate in the challenge. (And, regardless of whether or not you use the prompts theother rules still apply.)
A few prompts:
About the holidays themselves (potentially on the fluffy side):
- Characters go apple (or date!) picking (or honey harvesting!) to get ready for Rosh Hashanah
- Characters attempt to build a Sukkah. Shenanigans ensue.
- There is a Sukkot tradition that people have of inviting guests into their sukkah. This includes literal guests, but also figurative guest–biblical characters, ancestors, people who cannot be with them. Who is your character inviting into their sukkah?
Thematic prompts (potentially a bit more on the angsty side.)
- The Days of Awe are a period of repentance, culminating in Yom Kippur–the Day of Atonement. Write about your character and repentance.
- Rosh HaShana is a period of renewal and rebirth–new beginnings. Write about your character and rebirth, their new beginnings.
- There is a Rosh HaShana tradition people have of Tashlich–which involves casting bread crumbs into the water to symbolize things about the previous year you like to cast away. What is your character trying to cast away?
Get ready to write!
Reminder about these optional prompts, now that we are less than a week from the challenge opening!
Reblogging once more as as the Days of Awesome challenge opens tomorrow!!!!
Are you ready????
The challenge will remain open for a month!
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(Find out more about this Jewish Character fiction here!)
Shavuah Tov, friends! The Days of Awesome fic Challenge opens in 11 days! We hope you’re getting your writing muscles good and ready!
As promised, we did want to provide a few prompts to help get you thinking about the spirit of the upcoming holidays!
As a reminder, these prompts are entirely optional. You do not need to use any of them to participate in the challenge. (And, regardless of whether or not you use the prompts theother rules still apply.)
A few prompts:
About the holidays themselves (potentially on the fluffy side):
- Characters go apple (or date!) picking (or honey harvesting!) to get ready for Rosh Hashanah
- Characters attempt to build a Sukkah. Shenanigans ensue.
- There is a Sukkot tradition that people have of inviting guests into their sukkah. This includes literal guests, but also figurative guest–biblical characters, ancestors, people who cannot be with them. Who is your character inviting into their sukkah?
Thematic prompts (potentially a bit more on the angsty side.)
- The Days of Awe are a period of repentance, culminating in Yom Kippur–the Day of Atonement. Write about your character and repentance.
- Rosh HaShana is a period of renewal and rebirth–new beginnings. Write about your character and rebirth, their new beginnings.
- There is a Rosh HaShana tradition people have of Tashlich–which involves casting bread crumbs into the water to symbolize things about the previous year you like to cast away. What is your character trying to cast away?
Get ready to write!
Reminder about these optional prompts, now that we are less than a week from the challenge opening!
Calling all Jewish fans, and and fans of Jewish characters!
Very excited to announce that Days of Awesome–a Jewish High Holiday ficathon originally launched in 2007, and which ran from 2007-2013, is back–just in time to kick-off the Hebrew year of 5781!
What is Days of Awesome?
Days of Awesome is a annual Jewish character ficathon in honor of the Jewish high holiday season.
Originally founded by Livejournal user jadelennox in 2007, the goal of this project is to create a venue for fans of all backgrounds to write fic about Jewish characters and their Jewish identities–which are all-too-often under-represented in canon and fanon, and, when they are represented, they’re often represented as Jewish in name only.
We’re also here because while we love other holiday fic challenges, they so frequently don’t correspond with holidays that are important on the Jewish calendar. We wanted to change that with a festive little celebration around the Jewish holiday season!
How It Works
This year, we’re keeping it really casual.
We’ll have a collection on Archive of Our Own that will open on Erev Rosh HaShana (September 17, this year), and stay open through the Hebrew month of Tishrei (until October 17)–a length which spans the entire Jewish high holiday season, and includes the holidays of Rosh HaShana, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Sheminei Atzeret, and Simchat Torah!
You can feel free to upload any fic, ficlet, or podfic that you write that fits the requirements to the collection within that time frame. Please just tag it with the tag Community: daysofawesome!
And, if all goes according to plan, we’ll have a few optional prompts too, peppered and shared throughout the month.
What are the requirements for fic?
The only firm requirement is that your focal character be Jewish.
If they’re canonically Jewish–great!
If they’re not canonically Jewish, that’s okay too. But we would ask that if it is a situation in which you headcanon a particular character as Jewish, or are writing an AU in which they are Jewish, you please make the fic about their Jewishness.
If you have a Jewish OC that you want to write about–if, for instance, you want to explore what it would be like to be a Jewish character in the world of the Hunger Games,or His Dark Materials–go for it! Again, we would just ask that the fic be about that character’s (or those characters’) Jewish experiences.
If you wanted to be extra festive and seasonal, you could write about some of the characters celebrating one of the seasonal holiday, or a fic on one of the themes that is explored throughout one of these days.All fandoms are game, and there are no length requirements, and you can upload as many pieces as you’d like within the month.
Questions?
We are here to help!
Check out our FAQ, or feel free to drop us an ask ,or send us an email at [email protected]
And if you’re interested, please signal boost! We’d love to spread this far and wide!
Hey all!
It’s come to our attention that we got the date a day off. Erev Rosh HaShana is on September 18, this year, not September 17.
Nonetheless, we are going to open the collection on September 17 (Erev Erev Rosh HaShana, if you will), for a few reasons:
1) Some people, especially those whose observances are more on the traditional side, may be scrambling to get ready for the holiday on September 18.
2) We want to keep the challenge open for a full month!
As always, feel free to drop us an ask or an email if you have any questions!
Shavuah Tov, friends! The Days of Awesome fic Challenge opens in 11 days! We hope you’re getting your writing muscles good and ready!
As promised, we did want to provide a few prompts to help get you thinking about the spirit of the upcoming holidays!
As a reminder, these prompts are entirely optional. You do not need to use any of them to participate in the challenge. (And, regardless of whether or not you use the prompts theother rules still apply.)
A few prompts:
About the holidays themselves (potentially on the fluffy side):
- Characters go apple (or date!) picking (or honey harvesting!) to get ready for Rosh Hashanah
- Characters attempt to build a Sukkah. Shenanigans ensue.
- There is a Sukkot tradition that people have of inviting guests into their sukkah. This includes literal guests, but also figurative guest–biblical characters, ancestors, people who cannot be with them. Who is your character inviting into their sukkah?
Thematic prompts (potentially a bit more on the angsty side.)
- The Days of Awe are a period of repentance, culminating in Yom Kippur–the Day of Atonement. Write about your character and repentance.
- Rosh HaShana is a period of renewal and rebirth–new beginnings. Write about your character and rebirth, their new beginnings.
- There is a Rosh HaShana tradition people have of Tashlich–which involves casting bread crumbs into the water to symbolize things about the previous year you like to cast away. What is your character trying to cast away?
Get ready to write!
Casting Off - flowerfan - Schitt’s Creek [Archive of Our Own]
Our next piece dropped, by @flowerfan2
Fandom: Schitt’s Creek
Rating: T
Word Count: 2043
Summary:
In the midst of a painful conversation, David remembers something he did once with his father on the High Holidays, to deal with regrets and seek forgiveness.
שנה טובה!
Shana Tovah, everyone! Remember that Days of Awesome 2021 is open until October 6!
Our next piece is live, by @fairytrashmother
Fandom: Star Wars Thrawn
Rating: G
Word Count: 893
Summary:
Thrawn and Eli get stuck on a pointless mission on Erev Rosh Hashanah
Eli is resigned, but Thrawn has other ideas.
Mitzi Buys Apples - frausorge - Tell Me a Mitzi - Lore Segal [Archive of Our Own]
We have our first work/ficlet in this year’s Days of Awesome collection!
Fandom: Tell Me a Mitzi
Rating: G
Word Count: 618
Summary: “Mitzi,” said Mitzi’s mother, “can you and Jacob please buy some apples on your way home from school tomorrow?”
Days of Awesome 2021 is now open!
Days of Awesome 2021 (5782)
Today is the first of the Hebrew month of Elul, which means IT’S almost TIME FOR DAYS OF AWESOME! Whoo!
What is Days of Awesome?
Days of Awesome is a annual Jewish character ficathon in honor of the Jewish high holiday season.
Originally founded by Livejournal user jadelennox in 2007, the goal of this project is to create a venue for fans of all backgrounds to write fic about Jewish characters and their Jewish identities–which are all-too-often under-represented in canon and fanon, and, when they are represented, they’re often represented as Jewish in name only.
We’re also here because while we love other holiday fic challenges, they so frequently don’t correspond with holidays that are important on the Jewish calendar. We wanted to change that with a festive little celebration around the Jewish holiday season!
How It Works
We’re keeping it really casual.
We’ll have a collection on Archive of Our Own that will open on Erev Rosh HaShana (Monday, September 6, this year), and stay open through the Hebrew month of Tishrei (until October 6)–a length which spans the entire Jewish high holiday season, and includes the holidays of Rosh HaShana, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Sheminei Atzeret, and Simchat Torah!
You can feel free to upload any fic, ficlet, or podfic that you write that fits the requirements to the collection within that time frame. Please just tag it with the tag Community: daysofawesome!
And, if all goes according to plan, we’ll have a few optional prompts too, peppered and shared throughout the month.
What are the requirements for fic?
The only firm requirement is that your focal character be Jewish.
If they’re canonically Jewish–great!
If they’re not canonically Jewish, that’s okay too. But we would ask that if it is a situation in which you headcanon a particular character as Jewish, or are writing an AU in which they are Jewish, you please make the fic about their Jewishness.
If you have a Jewish OC that you want to write about–if, for instance, you want to explore what it would be like to be a Jewish character in the world of the Hunger Games, or His Dark Materials–go for it! Again, we would just ask that the fic be about that character’s (or those characters’) Jewish experiences.
If you wanted to be extra festive and seasonal, you could write about some of the characters celebrating one of the seasonal holiday, or a fic on one of the themes that is explored throughout one of these days.
All fandoms are game, and there are no length requirements, and you can upload as many pieces as you’d like within the month.
Questions?
We are here to help!
Check out our FAQ, or feel free to drop us an ask ,or send us an email at [email protected]
And if you’re interested, please signal boost! We’d love to spread this far and wide!
TWO WEEKS UNTIL DAYS OF AWESOME OPENS! Get those writing muscles stretched!
ONE WEEK UNTIL DAYS OF AWESOME OPENS!!!!
We’re so excited!
DAYS OF AWESOME OPENS TOMORROW!!!!!
אמא: מה עוד לחתוך לברכות? תפוח, סלק…
אני:פיצה
אמא:?
אני: שיתפוצצו אויבינו
אמא:
אני:סושי
אמא:
אני: שנסשה בם את זעמנו
אמא:
אני:
אמא:
אני: אפשר רימון
With the current year coming to an end we will enter a new year. A new cycle to do good and serve Hashem. As we go and stand before the King within less than a day from now let us all remember that He’s not just the second part of “Avinu Malkeinu” [our King] but that He’s also “Avinu”[our Father] who only wants the best for His children. May our Tefillos be heard and accepted on the Yom HaDin and may everyone have געפוילט אלעס גוט'ס. It should be a גוט געבענטשט יאהר, a sweet year, a healthy year, a happy year, without any pain or tzoros and a year of chassudim tovim [good acts of kindness].
“Chasudim Tovim” every Chesed that the Ribono Shel Olam does to us is good. But we say “chassudim tovim” because we specifically want to see the good right away. May this year, 5776, be a year that we will indeed see and feel these chassudim tovim right away. May it be a year of Yiddishe simches and nachas; a year in which those who need it will find their right Zivug b’Korov u’Beneikel with Hatzlocha, Brocho and Nesias Chen. Everyone of them should be zocheh to build a Bayis Ne’eman b’Yisroel, A Bayis Malei Birkas Hashem, a warm Yiddishe house full of Torah, Yiras Shomayim and Chesed, all together with Doros Yeshorim u'Mevorachim, with parnosa and with health. And may we all be zocheh to serve the Eibishter with an Avodah Sheleima [complete avodah] and an Avodah Heimah m’Soch Simcha [avodah through joy].
May it takeh be a year of Geulos and Yeshuos for Klal Yisroel and may we all have a k’Siva v’Chasimah Tovah. We should all be zocheh to go מחיל אל חיל [from strength to strength] until the Geulah Sheleima b’vias Moshiach Tzidkeinu Bimhera b'Yomeinu, Amen!
today is the beginning of rosh hashanah- the jewish new year!
im going to be posting some rosh hashanah themed stuff today for my fellow jewish kiddos :) !שנה טובה
