Gallagher

Was there some big holiday going on?

I have a customer not being able to pay for his stuff cuz his office and himself are on holidays and just came back.


What is going on here ?

k_r_a_c_k_e_r

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google.ca?

Gallagher

i dunno, he said something about roshanshanda or something

05CivicSi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosh_Hashanah

FiveO

Rosh Hashanah - Jewish New Year and day of reckoning.

For the religiously observant, Rosh Hashanah is followed by ten days of self-examination and repentance for one's wrongs in the previous year against God and one's fellow man.

Gallagher

gotcha, so its a booze fest?

FiveO

No. It's a solemn religious occasion for the observant Jew, and not the celebration that we usually associate with Jan 1 New Year.

Purim is the boozefest. ;-)

Gallagher

so you are jewish?

FiveO

No, but was fgood friends with one who just happened to be quite observant. His was a very regulated life. It seemed like there was a religious requirement or prohibition on virtually every facet of his life. At times I was quite surprised that he was even permitted to associate socially with me, goyim that I am.

Do a google search on "ask a rabbi" or "ask the rabbi". You'd be amazed at the degree of detail or legalisms in Jewish religious law as it applies to the most minute details of daily living.

http://www.yeshiva.org.il/ask/eng/

Gallagher

i took all this in school and visited their places of worship.

I actually went to a jewish wedding and had to wear the yamaka.