Well, folks, it’s that September time of the year again. Beginning Sunday night with Rosh HaShanah (translated as Head of the Year) through Yom Kippur and Sukkot, there are seven days we cannot work in a twenty-two-day period.

Along with being the celebration of the Jewish New Year and the creation of the world by God, Rosh Hashanah begins the Yamim Noraim, the ten days of awe, Note, that’s awe as in being God’s presence, not awwwww as in what you say when seeing an ugly baby, but you don’t want to insult the infant’s grandparents who are showing you pictures while you are trying to pray during the High Holiday services. The ten days between the first day of Rosh Hashanah ending with the final blowing of the Shofar ending Yom Kippur is a time for serious introspection, a time to consider the sins of the previous year and atone for our wrongs.

Some of us will be flying down to Florida to celebrate this solemn time in “God’s waiting room,” also known as Boca Raton. In New York State, the law says all Jews have to move to Florida once they hit 65 years old. The punishment for non-compliance is Al Sharpton, and most of the congressional Democrats will conduct an anti-Semitic protest in your basement (and they won’t clean up).

Because of the coming holidays, we would like to provide our Gentile friends with a list of dos and don’ts for the days we are gone.