Shirt Sounds Like Shofar

Shirt Sounds The Shofar New Year in different cultures Celebrating the Arrival of a new year is an attitude of the human being that depending on their origin and culture, goes back thousands of years and is based on how they count days, months, years and centuries. The New Year's celebration dates back several thousand years, but it did not start in Western cultures until only 400 years ago. Such festivities began in ancient Babylon (now Iraq) around 2000 BC. Babylonians, however, began their new year near the end of what is now March, a logical time to start a new year, as winter was over, spring with its new life started and crops were planted for the following year. New Year's in China. According to the Chinese calendar, the celebration of a new year generally falls to the second new moon after the Northern winter solstice (December 21). Due to its lunar character, Chinese New Year - also called spring festival - cannot be converted to an exact date of the Gregorian calendar and can occur between January 21 or February 21. Chinese New Year (year 4714 called Red Monkey fire) will arrive on February 8, 2016. As in previous years, family meetings and street celebrations are expected to celebrate the arrival of the new annual period. This is a time full of celebrations, starting on New Year's Day and ending with the Festival of Lanterns, the fifteenth day of the first month. Family visits, special meals and fireworks are organised. Everyone celebrates it, especially during the first three days of the festival. Christian Festivities. In 153 BC. the Roman Senate decreed that the new year would begin on January 1. He made this decree to correct the calendar, which had gotten out of sync with the sun. The date has no agricultural or seasonal significance, although January 1 did have a civil meaning. At that time, the newly elected Roman consuls took office. It is interesting to note that January is named after the Roman God Jano (hence is derived January and Janerio), which has two faces that can represent looking back at the old year and the other looking forward towards the new year.(1) The New Year is the celebration of the beginning of the following year in the calendar, depending on the type of calendar used. The most common is that of 1 January, of the Gregorian calendar, which was introduced by Pope Gregorio XIII in 1582, and which is used in most countries of the world. Because of this celebration, the first day of the year is a holiday almost everywhere. With Western culture expanding to the rest of the world during the twentieth century, January 1 became a universal date, even in countries with their own New Year celebrations like China. Since then, the New Year's holiday has been one of the main celebrations on the planet, and in many places it usually starts on the night of December 31, the year that ends the Jewish New Year. Rosh Hashana, which in 2016 will begin at dusk on October 2 and end two days later, or October 4; this starts the year 5777, according to the Hebrew calendar. The event will be held on the first two days of the month Tishrei (the first month of the modern Hebrew calendar), which begins with the creation of the world, and the seventh - according to the Bible's order of the months - which begins in Nisan, in commemoration of the Hebrews' departure from slavery in Egypt. The name given to Tishrei month in the Bible is simply "the seventh month", following the ordinal numbering, as is the rest of the Hebrew year in the Torah. This time on October 2 and 3 (holidays). The celebration begins at dusk the day before with the sound of shofar (a goat horn), calling Jews for meditation, self-analysis and a return to the path of justice. It is celebrated these days to start the month "tishrei", when God created the world. It is also called the moment when the first man was created: Adam.(2) In pre-Hispanic Mexico the New Year was celebrated every 52 year cycle.