welcome back everybody Rosh Hashanah the
Jewish New Year is right around the
corner Kim and Margie are here today to
help us celebrate by talking about some
wonderful traditions first for people
that don't know it explain to me exactly
what Rosh Hashanah is Rosh Hashanah is
the Jewish New Year and we go on a lunar
calendar and when we say Rosh Hashanah
its that means like the head of the year
yeah so that's what it translates so
it's the Jewish New Year and it's very
what it is it's five thousand five
thousand seven hundred and seventy nine
and there's so many wonderful traditions
that go along with this and you wanted
to share some of those today so Nicky we
have so many good foods because you know
the Jewish tradition is is food food so
we're gonna talk about three traditional
foods that you will find on the holiday
table and first of all we have around
challah
yes it's egg bread and on Friday nights
we usually eat it for our Sabbath but
it's it's oval and but for Rosh Hashanah
the roundness symbolizes the year the
year oh I forget all the year round the
Sun is and sometimes a lot of times
there's raisins added this is plain
sounds good yes and so you'll always
find a great challah okay and by the way
I just want to say that Publix was so
generous and donated oh oh everything
today so we could talk about it the
public yeah already so we've got the
hollow the challah wrapped and then I'm
gonna go over to the pomegranate juice
pomegranate devar it's really I have to
tell it is okay my son loves it too so
the pomegranate and and I want to tell
you that a lot of all our food that we
have is like symbolic so again it
represents fruitfulness you'll find the
symbol of the pomegranate and so many
just historical paintings and Judaica
and I want to tell you something city
seeds yes ma'am there are 613 seeds so
they say having pancakes okay that
represents the 613
mitzvahs or Commandments that we follow
to make it look beautiful yeah and then
we have apples with honey apples with
honey all right so you know the Apple is
a symbol in the Bible a lot and yeah
though it represents fruitfulness and
supposedly long time ago the ancient
people thought that apples were healthy
and they are so we have the roundness
again cycle in the year and you
tradition is to take an apple and dip it
in honey yeah it's a little oh yeah
right and then while we there is one
more tradition that you wanted to share
with us and that's a carrot stew yes yes
so you often have carrot tzimmes for
your rush Hashanah meal and I'm going to
demonstrate how we make that you slice
the carrots into these rounds it's
better to use carrots with the green
tops because they taste better it tastes
better er yes they do then you put some
orange juice in about half a cup and
then cover water in a pot like this on
the stove you boil that for about eight
minutes until some of the water goes
down and the carrots are almost tender
then you put in raisins and honey while
it's still while it's still cooking a
pinch of salt some lemon juice okay and
it'll still be cooking now I'm not
cooking right now we're just retired
we're just pretending the water
disappears so just pretend that I'm gone
and then you're going to mix equal parts
melted butter and flour and this gives
it this really special glaze thank you
to Carroll whompin from the Jacksonville
Jewish Center sisterhood whose recipe
I'm using and when this is boiling at
stirring for one minute you will end up
with this beautiful glazed dish I don't
even like carrots and this is really
delicious I can't imagine that that
wouldn't be so yummy I mean you sit in
the shutter and you know lemon juice and
everything ladies happy Rosh Hashanah
thank you so much
come back every year and I will be right
back after this
my sign it's over happy healthy new year
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