Today Saturday. November National Hug a Musician Day. Friendship Music. National Indian Pudding Day. Baking Cultural Dessert. Sadie Hawkins Day. Activities Crazy Pop Culture. Customs associated with the holiday include sounding the shofar, eating a round challah, and tasting apples and honey to represent a sweet New Year.
It shall be a sacred occasion for you: You shall practice self-denial. Fasting is seen as fulfilling this biblical commandment. The Yom Kippur fast also enables us to put aside our physical desires to concentrate on our spiritual needs through prayer, repentance and selfimprovement. Yom Kippur is the moment in Jewish time when we dedicate our mind, body, and soul to reconciliation with God, our fellow human beings, and ourselves. We are commanded to turn to those whom we have wronged first, acknowledging our sins and the pain we might have caused.
At the same time, we must be willing to forgive and to let go of certain offenses and the feelings of resentment they provoked in us. On this journey we are both seekers and givers of pardon. It also commemorates the 40 years of Jewish wandering in the desert after the giving of the Torah atop Mt. Sukkot is celebrated five days after Yom Kippur on the 15th of the month of Tishrei, and is marked by several distinct traditions.
One, which takes the commandment to dwell in booths literally, is to erect a sukkah, a small, temporary booth or hut. Sukkot in this case, the plural of sukkah are commonly used during the seven-day festival for eating, entertaining and even for sleeping. A final name for Sukkot is Chag HaAsif, Festival of the Ingathering , representing a time to give thanks for the bounty of the earth during the fall harvest.
As part of the celebration, the Torah scrolls are taken from the ark and carried or danced around the synagogue seven times.
This practice represents the cyclical nature of the relationship between the Jewish people and the reading of the Torah.
The modern home celebration of Hanukkah centers around the lighting of the hanukkiyah, a special menorah for Hanukkah; foods prepared in oil including latkes potato pancakes and sufganiyot jelly doughnuts ; and special songs and games. The holiday also has become a tree-planting festival in Israel, in which Israelis and Jews around the world plant trees in honor or in memory of loved ones and friends.
One is that it represents the biblical story told in Genesis, in which Abraham sacrifices a ram instead of his son, Isaac.
Rabbis have also interpreted the loud blast of the shofar as a wake-up call for the new year. Synagogues across the country are taking different approaches to holding services for Rosh Hashanah during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Some synagogues will hold services in person with no vaccine mandate, while others might ask members to be vaccinated or test negative for COVID Other temples will hold services virtually or outside and socially distanced. Can it be done over Zoom? Can it be done outside?
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