As part of the programme of activities for the Month of Sepharad, the Fundación Tres Culturas, in collaboration with the Jewish Community of Seville, is organising a conference on Tuesday 19 September at 7 p.m., which aims to continue to shed light on Jewish culture in all its dimensions and to disseminate it among the public.
The months of September and October in our calendar coincide with the month of tishrei of the Jewish calendar, in which some of the most important festive celebrations, such as New Year's Day or Yom Kippur, are concentrated. This period is known as 'the High Holidays' (and also, according to medieval rabbinic terminology, as the yamim noraimThe 'terrible days'), and precedes the feast of tabernacles, sukkotone of the three Jewish pilgrimage festivals (the shloshet haRegalim).
Rosh haShanah (literally 'the head of the year') has been celebrated for millennia, even though its origins are unclear, beyond Leviticus 23, 24-25, where the people of Israel are asked to observe the first day of the seventh month as a day of rest and to sound the shofarthe trumpet made from a ram's horn.
How this is associated with the New Year and the relationship of the festival with sweet foods (pomegranates, apples, honey) is something we will discover from Flavio Masitas, coordinator of social and cultural affairs of the Jewish Community of Seville. A journalist by training, he has worked in the media both in the public sector and in international cooperation, and is currently also involved in initiatives that use technology to promote sustainable measures.
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