NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) — Grab your shofars and get ready for a feast! The Jewish New Year is right around the corner.

Rosh Hashanah 5786 begins on Monday at sundown and ends at nightfall on Thursday. The Jewish New Year, in Hebrew, translates to "Head of the Year." The days consist of prayer readings from the Torah, festive meals and blowing the ram's horn, the shofar.

The food eaten every night and day of Rosh Hashanah represents a different aspect of what Jewish people hope the year will bring for them. Honey, challah and apples represent the wish for a sweet year; the head of a fish is symbolic of being "a head and not a tail" on the first night of Rosh Hashanah.

Pomegranates are typically eaten for their volume of seeds, which represents the many merits Jewish people hope to accrue t

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