The Jewish community has a busy schedule ahead of them as Monday ends the Jewish year and is the day of preparation for the beginning of the New Year, Tuesday, on Rosh Hashanah.
Jewish days lasted until sunset, so the festivities will not begin until the evening.
Chabad-Lubavitch, a Jewish organization located at 14 Aigburth Ave., is presided over by Rabbi Mendy Rivkin.
The newest of Towson's Hebrew worship organizations provides service to classes and a place for students to observe the High Holidays.
They will be hosting Rosh Hashanah services in the University Union Severn Lounge at 7 p.m., Monday night.
Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. they will hold another service, as well as a Torah reading at 11 a.m., with another service at 7 p.m.
Finally on Wednesday, a morning service will be held at 9:30 a.m., as well as a Torah reading at 11 a.m.
Rivkin said he is thrilled that many have already taken advantage of the opportunities at Hillel, campus's largest Jewish organization, with more than 800 members on its listserv.
"I think it is wonderful that students take time out of their college experience to take Judaism…and make it their own," he said.
According to Hillel's Web site, there are approximately 2,000 Jewish undergraduate and graduate students at Towson, which is about 10 percent of the campus population.
While Chabad-Lubavitch is not affiliated with the University is still is open to students, Rivkin said.
Efy Flamm, the director of the Jewish collegian network, explains the significance of the holiday week.
"The High Holy Holidays gives me a chance to refocus and to direct my life the way I want to live it," Flamm said.
Flamm, another contributor to exposing the religion of Judaism to Towson students, said that the significance of the holidays is to focus on what we humans are able to accomplish while being good humans.
"It is also the time our creator judges us for our actions," he said.
According to Flamm, the High Holy [Holidays] are actually two days, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Tonight, they will eat sweet food that symbolizes a blessing to have something sweet.
The shofar, which is a ram's horn, will be blown on Tuesday at the synagogue to "wake up the potential we strive for," Flamm said, "We also go to the synagogue to anoint the creator as the king of the world."
With the continuing exposure of Judaism on campus, Flamm believes that the students will see "the beauty of the Jewish life."
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