Rosh Hoshana Q&A

With the Jewish New Year Rosh Hoshana coming up in less than a week (October 4th), I thought I’d take a moment to answer your questions about the holiday.
Q: Why is it on a different day every year?
A: It’s not. It’s on the first of Tishrei, you moron.
Q: Why does Rosh Hoshana begin at sundown?
A: The sun is a skin cancer-causing Muslim spy, and we won’t celebrate while it is watching us.
Q: What does Rosh Hoshana mean?
A: It means that I’m still going to write 5765 on all of my checks like a fool.
Q: Why do you blow a ram’s horn on Rosh Hoshana?
A: Because the car’s horn is broken.
Q: On American New Year’s, you eat black eyed peas for good luck. What do you eat on Rosh Hoshana?
A: Apples dipped in honey, bread dipped in honey… we dip a lot of things in honey. Once, I paid for my apples and bread with a credit card. It was dipped in honey along with the receipt. Do you know how hard it is to sign something that’s been dipped in honey?
Q: How do you pronounce that bread that Jews eat on Rosh Hoshana?
A: “Bread.”
Q: Why is no work permitted on Rosh Hoshana?
A: Because the synagogue doesn’t have Wifi and we forgot the cable to connect the laptop to the cell phone.
Q: Some Jew just said “L’shanah tovah 5766” to me? What does it mean?
A: “Sha Na Na is coming back for 5766.”
So, folks, L’shana tovah, and save some bread for me. Otherwise, I may have to dip you in honey.

15 Comments

  1. Bah, “eating black-eyed peas on American New Year’s to bring good luck.” I laugh at the idea. Mock it, snort at it I do! Ridiculous superstition!!!
    Everyone knows you eat ham and beans on American New Year’s for good luck! I mean, it’s in the Constitution, right? Somewhere in there after “unalienable rights bestowed by the Creator”. Look it up!
    Yeah.

  2. apotheosis,
    No, you must have been Bar or Bat Mitzvahed, where, as I explained before, young Jews are secretly initiated into the World Zionist Conspiracy. See, we invented that whole “becoming a man/woman” thing to confuse the gentile.
    And, G.I. Joe, I lost you after “Jews.”

  3. sounds like GI Joe must be a psuedo name…after all, if he were really one of ours he would know that even if you are not jewish, it is a religion with a lot less violence than say the allah and kill the infidel religion.

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