Rosh Chodesh Tishrei

Spiritual Energy of the Month: Sanctifying

Tishrei 5785: Nightfall Wednesday, Oct 2, 2024-Friday, November 1st 2024.

Pronunciation: TEESH-ray

Wellness Area: Seasons, Cycles & Simchas!

Astrological Sign: Moznaim / Libra

Hebrew Letter: ל Lamed

Holidays

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year (nightfall on Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024)

Yom Kippur, the Day of Forgiveness (nightfall on Friday, October 11th 2024)

Sukkot, the harvest Festival of Booths (nightfall on Wednesday, October 16th-Wednesday October 23)

Shemini Atzeret, a holiday of prayers for rain falling (nightfall on Wednesday, October 23)

Simchat Torah, celebrating the restart of the Torah reading cycle (nightfall on Thursday, October 24th)

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משנה ראש השנה א׳:א׳

אַרְבָּעָה רָאשֵׁי שָׁנִים הֵם. בְּאֶחָד בְּנִיסָן רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה לַמְּלָכִים וְלָרְגָלִים. בְּאֶחָד בֶּאֱלוּל רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה לְמַעְשַׂר בְּהֵמָה. רַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר וְרַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן אוֹמְרִים, בְּאֶחָד בְּתִשְׁרֵי. בְּאֶחָד בְּתִשְׁרֵי רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה לַשָּׁנִים וְלַשְּׁמִטִּין וְלַיּוֹבְלוֹת, לַנְּטִיעָה וְלַיְרָקוֹת. בְּאֶחָד בִּשְׁבָט, רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה לָאִילָן, כְּדִבְרֵי בֵית שַׁמַּאי. בֵּית הִלֵּל אוֹמְרִים, בַּחֲמִשָּׁה עָשָׂר בּוֹ:

Mishnah Rosh Hashanah 1:1

The four new years are: On the first of Nisan, the new year for the kings and for the festivals; On the first of Elul, the new year for the tithing of animals; Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Shimon say, on the first of Tishrei. On the first of Tishrei, the new year for years, for the Sabbatical years and for the Jubilee years and for the planting and for the vegetables. On the first of Shevat, the new year for the trees according to the words of the House of Shammai; The House of Hillel says, on the fifteenth thereof.

ראש השנה י׳ ב:י׳-י״א א:ג׳

תניא רבי אליעזר אומר בתשרי נברא העולם בתשרי נולדו אבות בתשרי מתו אבות בפסח נולד יצחק בראש השנה נפקדה שרה רחל וחנה בראש השנה יצא יוסף מבית האסורין בר"ה בטלה עבודה מאבותינו במצרים בניסן נגאלו בתשרי עתידין ליגאל ר' יהושע אומר בניסן נברא העולם בניסן נולדו אבות בניסן מתו אבות בפסח נולד יצחק בר"ה נפקדה שרה רחל וחנה בר"ה יצא יוסף מבית האסורין בר"ה בטלה עבודה מאבותינו במצרים בניסן נגאלו בניסן עתידין ליגאל תניא ר"א אומר מנין שבתשרי נברא העולם שנאמר (בראשית א, יא) ויאמר אלהים תדשא הארץ דשא עשב מזריע זרע עץ פרי איזהו חדש שהארץ מוציאה דשאים ואילן מלא פירות הוי אומר זה תשרי ואותו הפרק זמן רביעה היתה וירדו גשמים וצימחו שנא' (בראשית ב, ו) ואד יעלה מן הארץ

Rosh Hashanah 10b:10-11a:3

It is taught in a baraita that the tanna’im disagreed about this point: Rabbi Eliezer says: In Tishrei the world was created; in Tishrei the Patriarchs were born; in Tishrei the Patriarchs died; on Passover Isaac was born; on Rosh HaShana Sarah, Rachel, and Hannah were remembered by God and conceived; on Rosh HaShana Joseph came out from prison; on Rosh HaShana our forefathers’ slavery in Egypt ceased; in Nisan the Jewish people were redeemed from Egypt; and in Tishrei in the future the Jewish people will be redeemed in the final redemption with the coming of the Messiah. Rabbi Yehoshua disagrees and says: In Nisan the world was created; in Nisan the Patriarchs were born; in Nisan the Patriarchs died; on Passover Isaac was born; on Rosh HaShana Sarah, Rachel, and Hannah were remembered by God and conceived sons; on Rosh HaShana Joseph came out from prison; on Rosh HaShana our forefathers’ slavery in Egypt ceased; in Nisan the Jewish people were redeemed from Egypt; and in Nisan in the future the Jewish people will be redeemed in the final redemption. The Gemara explains these matters in detail: It is taught in a baraita that Rabbi Eliezer says: From where is it derived that the world was created in the month of Tishrei? As it is stated: “And God said: Let the earth bring forth grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind” (Genesis 1:11). Which is the month in which the earth brings forth grass and the trees are full of ripe fruit? You must say that this is Tishrei. And a further proof that the world was created in Tishrei is that when the world was first created, it needed rain so that the plants would grow, and the period beginning with Tishrei is a time of rain, and rain fell and the plants grew, as it is stated: “But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground” (Genesis 2:6).

On the first of Tishrei [Rosh haShanah] the moon [the Shekhinah] is covered, and it does not shine until the tenth day [Yom Kippur], when Israel turn with a perfect repentance, so that the supernal Mother [Binah, the womb of souls and creator of the world] gives light to Her. Hence this day is called the day of atonements (kippurim).... For on this day the Moon receives illumination from the supernal Light [Binah]…. —Zohar III, 100b

"Save, please, human and animal, flesh and spirit and soul, sinew and bone and muscle, image and likeness and body, this glory like a passing breath, and renew the face of the earth..." —from the Sukkot liturgy

Months and days and nights and solstices and equinoxes and seasons were before God, and God taught them to Adam in the garden of Eden, as it is written— This is the book of the generations of Adam….And Eve taught them to Enoch, and he entered into every limb of the year…. “There will never cease from the earth planting (zera) and harvest (katzir), heat (chom) and cold (kor), summer (kayitz) and winter (choref). “Seedtime” is the equinox of Tishrei. “Harvest” is the equinox of Nisan. “Cold” is the solstice of Tevet, and “heat” is the solstice of Tammuz. “Summer’ in its time and “winter” in its time. —Pirkei deRabbi Eliezer 7