How Should a Noahide Prepare for Rosh Hashanah?
I admit I should have posted this 2 weeks ago, at the beginning of this month. My apologies. Please forgive me.
Rosh Hashanah is coming up quickly.
- The day that Hashem is declared Master over the entirety of Creation, including each and every one of us!
- The anniversary of the day homosapiens were imbued with the soul (the 6th Day of Creation), separating them from the animal kingdom!
- The day that the Creator judges the entirety of Creation!
How can you ensure a wonderful Rosh Hashanah when you stand before the King?
Just like marathon runners prepare many days in advance of their big day, so too must we prepare ourselves in advance. In fact, we don’t even do teshuvah (repentance) on Rosh Hashanah itself - it’s all supposed to be done now, leading up to the day of judgment!
So here’s how you can get started.
1) Download and read the Rosh Hashanah Celebration guide by the Oklahoma B’nai Noach Society.
2) Don’t (just) make a “New Year’s Resolution” on Rosh Hashanah. Instead, make and do your resolution now.
3) Take time each day to talk with Hashem. Go over the past year. Review your life.1
Below is the Table of Contents from the OKBNS Rosh Hashanah Celebration guide.
This wonderful guide they have designed with Rabbinic support is not meant to establish a single obligatory standard for all Bnei Noach. Rather, it is a guide for those who feel that such a guide will enhance there connection to and service of Hashem. This is important to understand, lest people mistake this for a new religion.
See “About this Book” page 3.
Table of Contents
About this book………………………………………………………………………………….3
Rosh Hashanah (New Year)……………………………………………………………….5
Prayer……………………………………………………………………………………………8
Prayer Customs……………………………………………………………………………8
Pre-Prayer Meditation……………………………………………………………………9
Kindling Lights…………………………………………………………………………….10
Psalms 1……………………………………………………………………………………11
Prayer for Parents……………………………………………………………………….11
Prayer for Children………………………………………………………………………11
Prayer for Remembrance……………………………………………………………..11
Rosh Hashanah Celebration Meal ……………………………………………………..13
Kiddush………………………………………………………………………………………..14
Washing of the Hands……………………………………………………………………14
Symbolic Foods…………………………………………………………………………….15
Against Idolatry…………………………………………………………………………..15
Against Theft………………………………………………………………………………15
Establishing courts of Justice………………………………………………………..15
Against Blasphemy……………………………………………………………………..16
Against Homicide………………………………………………………………………..16
Against Elicit Behavior…………………………………………………………………16
Against Eating the Limb of a Living Animal …………………………………….16
Merits of Society…………………………………………………………………………16
Blessing for Bread…………………………………………………………………………16
Blessing for Apples………………………………………………………………………..17
Eat the Festive Meal…………………………………………………………………………17
Blessing After the Meal……………………………………………………………………..17
Blessing of the New Moon…………………………………………………………………18
Shema……………………………………………………………………………………………19
Song………………………………………………………………………………………………20
- A helpful way to do this is to start with this month and mentally go back in time month by month, or season by season. You can use things like your birthdays and holidays as landmarks to remember what you were up to at that time. ↩



