Rosh Hashanah Eve Home Service
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We begin our Rosh Hashanah Experience with a prayer of Thanksgiving and Lighting the Festival Candles
We are thankful that we are once again able to celebrate the transition to the New Year.
We are thankful that we may take the opportunity to count our blessings even as we prepare to review our shortcomings.
We are thankful for our families and our circle of friends.
We are thankful for the memories of family and friends whose earthly presence we no longer may experience.
We are thankful for the opportunity to refresh our ties with our people Israel.
We are thankful for our ability to explore our connection to the Living God, as we light the festival candles and recite the Shehecheyanu:
On Rosh Hashanah our fate is written and on Yom Kippur it is sealed
A Blessing of the New Year
Our God and God of our Ancestors,
May we know Your Blessings in the year Five Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-Six.
Eternal one, Bless us and the whole House of Israel
With renewed life, happiness and peace, comfort and courage,
Resilience and strength.
May the words of our heart be acceptable to You
In the New Year that stretches before us.
We are forever grateful for the gift of life.
Our hopes and prayers for the New Year
Our God and God of all generations before us,
may it be Your will in the coming year to grant us —
a year of Abundance and atonement
a year of Blessings bestowed and received
a year of Community and compassion
a year of Delight and exultation
a year of Enlightenment
a year of Friendship and forgiveness
a year of Going-up in gladness to the Land of Israel
a year of Health and healing and humor
a year of Inner strength and well-being
a year of Joy and Jewish celebration
a year of Knowledge and learning for its own sake
a year of Love — between parents and children, friends
and spouses, brothers and sisters
a year of Mitzvot and moments of sweetness
a year of Nature protected and enjoyed
a year of Optimism and hope
a year of Peace — pursued with perseverance
a year of Quiet and tranquility
a year of Rain in its season
a year of Song and spiritual growth
a year of Torah study and Tikkun Olam
a year of Understanding and unity
a year of Vows fulfilled, and violence overcome
a year of Wisdom acquired and shared
a year of co-eXistence among the families of the earth
a year of Young and old reaching out to one another
a year of Zion aglow with light for us and all the world
Our God and God of the generations before us,
grant us a year of gratitude to You for the most profound of blessings—
Your gift of life.
It is customary to dip cut-up pieces of apple in honey to taste the sweetness of the New Year