Rosh Hashanah

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Sunday at sundown, we celebrate Rosh Hashonah, the Jewish New Year. It is customary during Rosh Hashonah to start fresh and cast your sins into the water.  This is called the tradition of Tashlikh.
Monday, Larry and I will travel to the closest body of water to our house, The Ballona Creek flood channel, and cast our sins off! I hope there's some water in the Creek!

Ballona Creek at La Cienega

One of the many traditions during this holiday is to eat something sweet to make sure that you will have a sweet and happy new year.  We dip apples in honey and have some delicious honey cake. 

Apples, honey cake and honey to symbolize a sweet New Year

The rest of our New Year's dinner will consist of roast chicken, candied carrots in the shape of coins to insure wealth in the New Year, and Great Aunt Luba's Noodle Kugel! I might throw in some steamed asparagus this year.

Kugel, Candied Carrots, Roast Chicken

On Rosh Hashanah it is written… On Yom Kippur it is sealed. May it be written and may it be sealed that you have a New Year that brings fulfillment and happiness, peace, sweetness and prosperity – all of life’s very best things. Have a Happy, Healthy New Year to all of my friends and family!

Oy!