Rosh Hashanah

“Now in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall also have a holy convocation, you shall do no laborious work. It will be to you a day for blowing shofars.”
Num. 29:1
The name "Rosh Hashanah" is not used in the Bible to discuss this holiday. The Bible refers to the holiday as Yom Ha-Zikkaron (the day of remembrance) or Yom Teruah (the day of the sounding of the shofar). The holiday is instituted in Leviticus 23:24-25
The shofar is the Hebrew word for trumpet or horn, a ram's horn which is blown somewhat like a trumpet. This instruction in the Old Covenant to blow the ram’s horn became a significant day of remembrance (Gen. 22:13-14). The shofar was blown to signify important occasions. At the sounding the following words were spoken, ‘you, who are asleep, wake up! You, who are in a trance, arise! Search your doings and repent; remember your Creator….’ Romans 13:11 says, ‘Awake, sleeper, and arise from the dead, and the Messiah will shine on you.’ (Eph. 5:14).
The bending in the shofar represents a human heart in true repentance bowing before
G-d and the blowing was a means of getting G-d’s attention, to be remembered and protected by Him. (Num. 10:9-10).
On this holiday instead of the usual twisted loaves of bread, the challah, for this meal has a different shape. The loaf is rounding, symbolic of our desire for a full and round year.
Three strands are braided together to give significance to this celebration.
It is a day to honor the kingship of G-d and His authority over creation.
It is a day of remembrance, a time to consider one’s place in the universe and one’s personal part in the unfolding of G-d’s plan for the world. It is a time when the past is recalled, memories are aroused, the future is envisioned, and personal inventories are taken.
The third thread refers to the revelation of G-d. and the sounding of the shofar is a symbolic signal to G-d’s people that it is time for a spiritual awakening.
Religious services for the holiday focus on the concept of G-d's sovereignty.
The Hebrew word Rosh means ‘head or beginning.’ Hashanah means ‘the year.’ The more common biblical name is the ‘Feast of Trumpets.’ It is a time set apart for a new beginning with G-d.
The account of Isaac in Genesis 22 is remarkably similar to the sacrifice of Y’Shua: he was his father’s only son; he was freely offered by his father; the wood for the sacrifice was carried on his shoulders, and the place of the sacrifice was on the hill in the land of Mariah which became Jerusalem. ‘Then Solomon began to build the house of G-d in Jerusalem on Mt. Mariah.’ (2 Chr. 3:1). In Gen. 22:1-14 G-d’s provision of a ram to be sacrificed in Isaac’s place, a living picture of what was to come in His greater gift of Y’Shua.
Remember this is a time of reflection and preparation. The major emphasis in your family should be: to remember your Creator, go to Him for forgiveness, and He will have mercy.