{"id":2965,"date":"2025-09-26T16:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T21:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=2965"},"modified":"2025-09-26T16:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T21:05:08","slug":"september-28-2025-celebrate-rosh-hashanah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=2965","title":{"rendered":"September 28, 2025 &#8211; Celebrate Rosh Hashanah!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rosh Hashanah, also called the Feast of Trumpets, begins the Days of Awe. For 10 days between this feast and Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), Israel trembled in repentance as, according to tradition, their lives hung in the balance while the Book of life was opened in heaven. The blowing of the shofar or ram&#8217;s horn is a feature of this celebration. Many scholars believe Jesus was born around the time of this feast, and it represents the new birth of believers, too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/pdf\/RoshhaShana.pdf\">Memo about Rosh Hashanah<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communityoncolumbia.org\/pdf\/Readings_Notes\/Rosh_Hashanah_Memorial.pdf\">Rosh Hashanah as a &#8216;Memorial&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communityoncolumbia.org\/pdf\/Readings_Notes\/More%20on%20Rosh%20Hashanah.pdf\">\u2026 and some additional notes here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rosh Hashanah, also called the Feast of Trumpets, begins the Days of Awe. For 10 days between this feast and Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), Israel trembled in repentance as, according to tradition, their lives hung in the balance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=2965\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2966,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions\/2966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}