Hebrew Fundamentals – Yom Teruah

In Judaism today of the 21st century, most people know this holiday as Rosh Hashanah.

Rosh Hashanah is Hebrew for New Year's.

And this goes back to the Mishnah, which says there's four New Year's in the Hebrew year.

So most people don't know, four New Year's? We just know about one year, what's the four? And they're for different things.

There's a new year of the trees.

There's a new year for kings.

There's a new year of the months.

New years of the months is, so we have the Feast of Unleavened Bread or Passover in the first month, right? In Leviticus 23 and Exodus 12, it says in the first month, right? So no one disputes that the first of the months is the month in which you have the Feast of Unleavened Bread, you know, that is Passover.

This feast, Rosh Hashanah, or as it's known in the Torah, Yom Teruah, is in the seventh month, the first day of the seventh month.

So I learned about Yom Teruah growing up.

I mean, for me it was, you know, I always knew about it.

But wait.

But it was called Rosh Hashanah.

I was going to say, now did it say?

Now we were taught that in the Torah it's called by two other names, Yom Teruah and Zichron Teruah.

Okay.

Okay, Yom Teruah is the day of shouting or the day of Truah.

We'll define Truah in a minute.

And Zichron Truah, we were told, is the commemoration of Truah.

But it actually means something else.

In Judaism today of the 21st century, most people know this holiday as Rosh Hashanah.

Rosh Hashanah is Hebrew for New Year's.

And this goes back to the Mishnah, which says there's four New Year's in the Hebrew year.

So most people don't know, four New Year's? We just know about one year, what's the four? And they're for different things.

There's a new year of the trees.

There's a new year for kings.

There's a new year of the months.

New years of the months is, so we have the Feast of Unleavened Bread or Passover in the first month, right? In Leviticus 23 and Exodus 12, it says in the first month, right? So no one disputes that the first of the months is the month in which you have the Feast of Unleavened Bread, you know, that is Passover.

This feast, Rosh Hashanah, or as it's known in the Torah, Yom Teruah, is in the seventh month, the first day of the seventh month.

So I learned about Yom Teruah growing up.

I mean, for me it was, you know, I always knew about it.

But wait.

But it was called Rosh Hashanah.

I was going to say, now did it say?

Now we were taught that in the Torah it's called by two other names, Yom Teruah and Zichron Teruah.

Okay.

Okay, Yom Teruah is the day of shouting or the day of Truah.

We'll define Truah in a minute.

And Zichron Truah, we were told, is the commemoration of Truah.

But it actually means something else.