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and greetings
There are a number of additions to the regular Jewish service, most
notably an extended repetition of the Amidah prayer for both Shacharit
and the longest Mussaf of any holiday. The traditional Hebrew greeting
on Rosh Hashanah is שנה טובה
shana tova [ʃaˈna toˈva] for "[a] good year",
or shana tova umetukah for "[a] good and sweet year."
Because Jews and the world are being judged by God for the coming
year, a longer greeting translates as "may you be written and
sealed for a good year" (ketiva ve-chatima tovah). It is customary
that during the afternoon of the first day (second day if the first
coincides with Shabbath) the practice of tashlikh is observed, in
which prayers are recited near natural flowing water, and one's
sins are symbolically cast into the water. Many also have the custom
to throw bread or pebbles into the water, to symbolize the "casting
off" of sins.
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