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A Chapter on Every Yom Tov, Chag, and Fast Day

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10 holidays A Chapter on Every Yom Tov, Chag, and Fast Day Rosh Hashanah condensed Oswald

where-to-start-your-first-holiday-cycle The Jewish year has a clear shape. Knowing the shape makes every individual holiday more meaningful. /articles/where-to-start-your-first-holiday-cycle.xml orientation https://pub-73c694f3dc3c4d0ea8f98f090d227a0d.r2.dev/article-images/your-first-holiday-cycle-crop-mvrkmkp4-86fe0afe-thumb.png Your First Holiday Cycle true true holidays-yamim-noraim-rosh-hashanah The Jewish New Year—the Day of Judgment, the head of the Ten Days of Repentance, and the day on which the shofar is sounded. /articles/holidays-yamim-noraim-rosh-hashanah.xml essential holidays-yamim-noraim-yom-kippur The Day of Atonement—the holiest day of the year, observed with a 25-hour fast, five services, and white garments. /articles/holidays-yamim-noraim-yom-kippur.xml essential a-high-holiday-checklist You have decided to go to synagogue for the High Holidays. Good. Now comes a surprisingly complicated question: what goes in the bag? /articles/a-high-holiday-checklist.xml practice holidays-shalosh-regalim-sukkot Festival of Booths—seven days of dwelling in the sukkah and waving the four species, commemorating the Israelites' wandering. /articles/holidays-shalosh-regalim-sukkot.xml essential going-deeper-deeper-judaica-sukkah The temporary dwelling that is itself a mitzvah—a roof of stars under which the Jew dwells for seven days. /articles/going-deeper-deeper-judaica-sukkah.xml practice https://pub-73c694f3dc3c4d0ea8f98f090d227a0d.r2.dev/article-images/sukkah-crop-mvyr8smy-5e97fb86-thumb.jpg Sukkah going-deeper-deeper-judaica-lulav-and-etrog-the-four-species The lulav, hadasim, aravot, and etrog—the four species waved during Sukkot. /articles/going-deeper-deeper-judaica-lulav-and-etrog-the-four-species.xml practice https://pub-73c694f3dc3c4d0ea8f98f090d227a0d.r2.dev/article-images/lulav-and-etrog-the-four-species-crop-mvyra7mb-6d5cb4a4-thumb.jpg Lulav and Etrog (The Four Species) holidays-yom-tov-shemini-atzeret-and-simchat-torah The eighth-day festival following Sukkot—in Israel a single day, in the diaspora two—climaxing with the dance of Simchat Torah. /articles/holidays-yom-tov-shemini-atzeret-and-simchat-torah.xml essential holidays-rabbinic-festivals-hanukkah The eight-day winter festival commemorating the Maccabean victory and the miracle of the oil. /articles/holidays-rabbinic-festivals-hanukkah.xml essential going-deeper-deeper-judaica-hanukkiah-menorah The nine-branched candelabrum lit on each of the eight nights of Hanukkah—one of the most distinctive pieces of Jewish judaica. /articles/going-deeper-deeper-judaica-hanukkiah-menorah.xml practice holidays-minor-tu-bishvat The New Year of the Trees—a Mishnaic minor festival recovered with great enthusiasm in modern times. /articles/holidays-minor-tu-bishvat.xml essential holidays-rabbinic-festivals-purim The festival of Esther—the joyful deliverance of Persian Jewry, observed with the Megillah, gifts to the poor, mishloach manot, and the seudat Purim. /articles/holidays-rabbinic-festivals-purim.xml essential holidays-shalosh-regalim-pesach Passover—the Festival of Freedom, the foundational story of the Jewish people, and the seder that is the most widely observed Jewish ritual in the world. /articles/holidays-shalosh-regalim-pesach.xml essential calendar-counting-the-omer-sefirat-haomer The 49-day count from the second night of Pesach to the eve of Shavuot—a Torah commandment, a practical bridge, and a Kabbalistic discipline. /articles/calendar-counting-the-omer-sefirat-haomer.xml essential holidays-modern-observances-yom-hashoah Holocaust Remembrance Day: the 27th of Nisan, fixed by Knesset resolution in 1951 and given statutory form in 1959. /articles/holidays-modern-observances-yom-hashoah.xml essential holidays-modern-observances-yom-hazikaron-and-yom-haatzmaut Israel's Memorial Day and Independence Day—observed back-to-back on the 4th and 5th of Iyar. /articles/holidays-modern-observances-yom-hazikaron-and-yom-haatzmaut.xml essential holidays-minor-lag-baomer The 33rd day of the Omer—the end of the spring period of mourning, observed with bonfires and visits to the grave of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai in Meron. /articles/holidays-minor-lag-baomer.xml essential holidays-modern-observances-yom-yerushalayim The 28th of Iyar—commemorating the reunification of Jerusalem in the Six-Day War of 1967. /articles/holidays-modern-observances-yom-yerushalayim.xml essential holidays-shalosh-regalim-shavuot The Festival of the Giving of the Torah—fifty days after Pesach, the early summer pilgrimage festival. /articles/holidays-shalosh-regalim-shavuot.xml essential holidays-fasts-the-four-minor-fasts Four daylight fast days frame the Jewish year with grief and remembrance. /articles/holidays-fasts-the-four-minor-fasts.xml essential holidays-fasts-tisha-bav The 9th of Av—the major fast day of the Jewish year, commemorating the destruction of both Temples and many other catastrophes. /articles/holidays-fasts-tisha-bav.xml essential going-deeper-deeper-judaica-megillot The five biblical scrolls read on five different occasions—most famously the Megillat Esther on Purim. /articles/going-deeper-deeper-judaica-megillot.xml essential