Rosh Hashanah 2024 Rapture. Rosh hashanah, first of the high holidays, is the jewish new year. Within judaism, this rediscovery event is called the jewish new year, or rosh hashanah.

Rosh hashanah kicks off the jewish calendar year and starts the high holy days and the days of repentance. It is the feast known as ‘nobody knows the day of the hour’ precisely because its beginning precedes.