Rosh Hashanah (tractate) Rosh Hashanah (Hebrew: ראש השנה) is the
name of a text of Jewish law originating in the Mishnah which
formed the basis of tractates in both the Babylonian Talmud and
the Jerusalem Talmud of the same name. It is the eighth tractate
of the order Moed. The text contains the most important rules
concerning the calendar year, together with a description of the
inauguration of the months, laws on the form and use of the
shofar and laws related to the religious services during the
Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah. The Mishnah commences with an
account of the four beginnings of the religious and the civil
year (1:1); it speaks of the four judgement-days of the pilgrim
festivals and Rosh ha-Shanah (1:2); of the six months in which
the messengers of the Sanhedrin announce the month (1:3); of the
two months, the beginnings of which witnesses announce to the
Sanhedrin even on the Sabbath (1:4), and even if the moon is
visible to every one (1:5); Gamliel even sent on the Sabbath for
forty pairs of