A Time to Grow:
A PJ Library Family Guide for Starting the Jewish New Year

This beautiful new PJ Library guide explores ways for your family to celebrate the three-week Jewish holiday season that begins with Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year).

You can download the guide in English, Portuguese, Russian, or Spanish below. Printed copies of the guide are available for purchase at Amazon.com and Amazon.ca.

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For easy use, download and print these special sections of the guide: Symbolic New Year Foods, What’s All the Praying About?, Family Conversations and Sukkot Rituals and Activities.

For High Holidays and Sukkot-Simchat Torah playlists and music videos, visit Holiday Listen.

For more information about the Jewish calendar, and to check out PJ Library’s online perpetual Jewish calendar, visit Jewish Calendar.

And now continue scrolling for a digital companion to A Time to Grow: A PJ Library Family Guide for Starting the Jewish New Year.

Rosh Hashanah

Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year. The Jewish calendar is based on the cycle of the moon …

Sweet Greetings

How do we greet one another on the Jewish New Year?

Have a Blast!

The shofar (ram’s horn) is like a wake-up call

Challah in the Round

Making ourselves and the world more whole

Preparing the Evening Meal

A traditional meal dating back 1,500 years

Rosh Hashanah Evening

Holiday Blessings

Wishes for our children and blessings on a new fruit

Symbolic New Year Foods

Appetizers with symbolism and word-play

Blessings for symbolic New Year foods

Rosh Hashanah Day

What's All the Praying About?

Unpacking 5 High Holiday prayers

Reflections on 5 High Holiday prayers

Tashlich: Casting Away Our Mistakes

A cleansing ceremony for the New Year

Ten Days of Returning

In the ten days beginning with Rosh Hashanah and ending with Yom Kippur – the Ten Days of Teshuvah (Ten Days of Returning) – we turn away from our mistakes and return to the “best self” we can be…