Tuesday, April 13, 2010

What are the English and Hebrew names of the feasts, and what do you like about them?

I know some of the names, but not all.


Passover - Leaving Egypt.


Purim - Feast of Ester


Sukkot - Feast of tabernacles (My favorite.)


Yom Copor - ?


Rosh Hashana - New Year


? - Feast of trumpets

What are the English and Hebrew names of the feasts, and what do you like about them?
Here's a list





1 Rosh Hashanah — The Jewish New Year


2 Aseret Yemei Teshuva — Ten Days of Repentance


3 Yom Kippur — Day of Atonement


4 Sukkot Feast of Booths


5 Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah


6 Hanukkah — Festival of Lights


7 Tenth of Tevet


8 Tu Bishvat-New Year of the Trees


9 Purim — Festival of Lots


10 New Year for Kings


11 Pesach — Passover


12 Sefirah — Counting of the Omer


13 Lag Ba'omer


14 New Israeli/Jewish national holidays


14.1 Yom HaShoah — Holocaust Remembrance day


14.2 Yom Hazikaron — Memorial Day


14.3 Yom Ha'atzmaut — Israel Independence Day


14.4 Yom Yerushalaim - Jerusalem Day


15 Shavuot — Feast of Weeks — Yom HaBikurim


16 Seventeenth of Tammuz


17 The Three Weeks and the Nine Days


18 Tisha B'av — Ninth of Av


19 Tithe of animals


20 Rosh Chodesh — the New Month
Reply:You mean Yom Kippur, and it's not a feast. It is a very solemn holy day, the Day of Atonement. It's my favorite day on the Jewish calendar, in part because I was born on Yom Kippur, but largely because of what it represents.





I had to Google "feast of trumpets", but apparently that is a name some use for Rosh HaShanah.





Other favorite festivals for me are Chanukah, Purim, and Shavuot.


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