Sep. 25 () –
More than 23,000 Hasidic pilgrims have arrived this Sunday in the city of Uman, in Cherkasi, to celebrate the Rosh Hashanah holiday, which marks the entry of the new Jewish year, which will be 5783, according to the Hebrew calendar.
“According to the State Migration Service of the Cherkasi region, on the morning of September 23, 19,821 pilgrims were already in Uman. According to the United Jewish Community of Ukraine, as of the morning of September 25, more than 23,000 pilgrims have arrived.” , says the report of the Ukrainian authorities, collected by the Ukrinform news agency.
Despite the fact that the Israeli Foreign Ministry warned pilgrims at the beginning of the month not to travel to Ukraine due to the situation in the country as a result of the Russian invasion, thousands of faithful have traveled to the city of Cherkasi, 200 kilometers from kyiv, and which has almost 270,000 inhabitants.
“The explosive security situation includes the danger of aerial bombardment or rocket fire at civilian areas, including in the center and west of the country, posing a real and immediate danger to life,” the statement said. Ministry, according to the newspaper ‘The Jerusalem Post’.
The Hasidic community was founded by Nachman of Breslev, a Polish rabbi who at the end of the 18th century moved to what is now central Ukraine and died there. Thus, thousands of faithful flock to the rabbi’s hometown to celebrate Rosh Hashanah.
The United Jewish Community of Ukraine denied in 2021 that there was an outbreak of coronavirus among the faithful in response to information spread in the media.
Tradition dictates that in all Jewish homes, the girls light the candles and recite blessings. In addition, special readings are read in the synagogue and the shofar is played, a kind of trumpet made from a ram’s horn, whose sound invites people to “awaken” their conscience in order to “repent of bad acts and return to God.”
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