JEWISH HOLY DAYS Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur Shabbat

JEWISH HOLY DAYS Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur Shabbat Passover Pentecost Sukkot Purim Chanukah

Rosh Hashanah (New Year) Blowing the Shofar at the Temple Mount Tashlich

Yom Kippur It is the Day of Atonement—“For on this day He will forgive you, to purify you, that you be cleansed from all your sins before G‑d”Leviticus 16: 30) (

On the seventh day G-d was finished with his work which he had made, so he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. G-d blessed the seventh day and separated it as holy; because on that day Gd rested from all his work which he had created, so that it itself could produce. Genesis 2: 2 -3 King David School Shabbat Remembrance of G-d’s creation of the world and deliverance from slavery in Egypt. Shabbat (Sabbath)

Pesach (Passover) Seder – Passover Meal and Seder plate Therefore, say to the people of Isra’el: ‘I am ADONAI. I will free you from the forced labor of the Egyptians, rescue you from their oppression, and redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. I will take you as my people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am ADONAI your God, who freed you from the forced labor of the Egyptians.

Shavuot (Pentecost) Before G‑d gave the Torah to the Jewish people He demanded guarantors. The Jews made a number of suggestions, all rejected by G‑d, until they declared, “Our children will be our guarantors that we will cherish and observe the Torah. ” G‑d immediately accepted them and agreed to give the Torah. Chabad. org

Sukkot – Festival of Booths Leviticus 23: 40: "On the first day, you will take for yourselves a fruit of a beautiful tree, palm branches, twigs of a braided tree and brook willows, and you will rejoice before the LORD your G-d for seven days. "

Purim [to commemorate] the days on which the Jews obtained rest from their enemies and the month which for them was turned from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; they were to make them days of celebrating and rejoicing, sending portions [of food] to each other and giving gifts to the poor. Esther 9: 22

Chanukah • • • Rededication of the temple Maccabees in the 2 nd century BCE Desecrated by the Seleucid Greeks Festival of Lights Victory of light over darkness

Sitting Shiva Video by Emmanuel Levy