Why is the Jewish new year in September?

Answer 1

There are many Jewish holidays all year round. The Jewish New Year falls in Autumn, in September or October. here is a list of all Jewish holidays:

The Major holidays are:

1 Rosh Hashanah - The Jewish New Year

2 Yom Kippur - Day of Atonement

3 Sukkot - Feast of Booths (or Tabernacles)

4 Pesach - Passover

5 Shavuot - Feast of Weeks - Yom HaBikurim

6 Shabbat - The Sabbath

Here is a list of almost all of the major and minor holidays:

1 Rosh Hashanah - The Jewish New Year

2 Aseret Yemei Teshuva - Ten Days of Repentance

3 Yom Kippur - Day of Atonement

4 Sukkot - Feast of Booths (or Tabernacles)

5 Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah

6 Hanukkah - Festival of Lights

7 Tenth of Tevet

8 Tu Bishvat - New Year of the Trees

9 Purim - Festival of Lots

10 Pesach - Passover

11 Sefirah - Counting of the Omer

12 Lag Ba'omer

13 Shavuot - Feast of Weeks - Yom HaBikurim

14 Seventeenth of Tammuz

15 The Three Weeks and the Nine Days

16 Tisha B'av - Ninth of Av

17 Rosh Chodesh - the New Month

18 Shabbat - The Sabbath

19 Yom HaShoah - Holocaust Remembrance day

20 Yom Hazikaron - Memorial Day

21 Yom Ha'atzmaut - Israel Independence Day

22 Yom Yerushalaim - Jerusalem Day

Answer 2

September is not considered the 7th Month in the Jewish religion. The month of Tishrei, which is the 7th month on the Hebrew Calendar, usually falls in September or October, but there is no connection between September and Tishrei, other than coincidence.

The Jewish Religion uses a different calendar for religious observances. It is a lunisolar calendar, and has a different system of leap years than the Gregorian calendar.

Answer 3

It's on the first day of Tishrei, which can fall anytime in September or October. The reason it's on the first of Tishrei is that this date is given in the Torah.

The Hebrew calendar does not line up with the Gregorian calendar.

Answer 4

What is now the Jewish seventh calendar month (Tishrei) was originally the first month, so that the beginning of the months and the year was at the same time. After the Exodus, however, God declared (Exodus 12:2) that henceforth Nissan would be considered the first month, as a monument of the great importance of the Exodus.

Answer 5

We keep our festivals on the dates commanded by God. Rosh Hashanah is the first two days of the month of Tishrei, and is the Jewish New Year. Our traditions state that at that time the world is judged for the coming year (Talmud, Rosh Hashanah 16a); and during services we read the Torah and say prayers which ask for a good year and which declare God's kingship over the world. The shofar* (ram's horn) is blown (Leviticus 23:24; Talmud, Rosh Hashanah 33b-34a), symbolically heralding God's kingship, and calling to mind the covenant of Isaac (see Genesis ch.22). Festive meals are held in the home, and traditional foods* (such as the well-known apple dipped in honey) are eaten to symbolize a sweet year (See Talmud, Keritut 6a).*See also the Related Links.

Link: The shofar

Link: Rosh Hashanah foods

Link: The Jewish holidays