Dear Doves,

 

Although Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are shown as two different holidays on the Hebrew Calendar, the High Holidays are considered one long holiday beginning on the Jewish New Year and ending 10 days later on The Day of Atonement. 

 

The entire period of repentance begins on Elul 1 and continues for a 40-day period, culminating on Yom Kippur, which takes place at  sundown ten days after the start of Rosh Hashanah. 

 

The Calendar shows Yom Kippur ending at sundown on September 18, 2010 (this is if you are counting the first day of Rosh Hashanah as starting on September 8.)

 

 If you are counting the first day of Rosh Hashanah as beginning on September 10, when the new moon was sighted, Yom Kippur will end at sundown on September 20. 

 

The essential commandment of Rosh Hashanah is to hear the sounding of the shofar. The very last blast or the tekiah gedolah is a single long blast of the shofar and is heard at sundown on Yom Kippur.  

 

Could this be the last "trump" before the rapture?

 

May all the Doves be blessed with a "Tovah U' Metukah" a sweet and good new year and may we be in New Jerusalem before the end of this month!