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2. Rabbinic Jews celebrate the New Year on the first day of Tishri. The Ananite New Year is the first of Nisan, and the first of Tishri is called Yom Teruah or the Day of Shouting. Many of the observances are the same -- for instance, the Ananite celebration includes the blowing of the shofar -- but the two religions consider each others' rituals heretical.

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