The seven Jews celebrate seven important holidays throughout the year. These holidays represent occasions where God steered the Jews down the right path. These holidays include Shabbat, Purim, Passover, Yom Kippur, Hanukkah, Rosh Hashana, and Shavuot. These holidays come around every year. They all involve their own ceremonies and customs. Jews all around the world take part in the festivities. More importantly, these holidays depict how and why people of Jewish value these celebrations.
First, the Sabbath which is a day of resting, it is an essential factor to relinquish your inner spirit or soul. Sabbath is the most recognized Jewish holiday but people lack the understanding of the holiday, thinking it is just a day for prayer and relaxation but for those who comprehend the importance know it is a gift from god, and is a moment where you set all your concerns aside to rehabilitate your spirit. Jewish people are supposed to remember this holiday not for the aspect of Sabbath but the meaning behind it, the history is a “commemoration of creation and as a commemoration of our freedom from slavery in Egypt.” When we celebrate on the day of Sabbath we are showing our acknowledgement of the fact God is the creator of all. The holiday is based around freedom, when they were slaves they received no rest days and having Sabbath is a reminder that we are free, free from all of our concerns, problems, jobs, and overall life.
The story of Purim is discussed in the biblical book of Esther. She was brought to Ahasuerus, King of Persia, to become part of his kingdom. The king did not know Esther was Jewish and Haman, an arrogant, witty advisor to the king plan was to erase Jewish people from existence. Mordecai who raised Esther as her...
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...ax but really they all had a significant meaning that I did not know about. After reading all several holidays I realized that each holiday plays an important part in the lives of Jewish people. Sabbath is a holiday of pure relaxation and freedom because that was the day they were freed from Egypt. Purim is the holiday to celebrate the survival of Haman. Passover is a religious experience of those who went through the leaving of Egypt. Yom Kippur is the holiday in which you free yourself of your sins. Hanukkah is when Israel was triumphant against the strongest army on earth. Rosh Hashanah is the blessing of a new year that follows. And Shavuot is the blessing received by the five first bibles. Knowing the holidays now has given me a view of how other religions celebrate, what ceremonies and customs they have, and most important why they value these celebrations.
The Holocaust represents 11 million lives that abruptly ended, the extermination of people not for who they were but for what they were. Groups such as handicaps, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholics, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, political dissidents and others were persecuted by the Nazis because of their religious/political beliefs, physical defects, or failure to fall into the Aryan ideal. The Holocaust was lead by a man named Adolf Hitler who was born in 1889, and died in 1945.
Judaism is one of the oldest religious practices all over the world. It literally gave a start to two the most popular religions nowadays: Islam and Christianity. It seems that everybody must be familiar with the basics of this religion, though it is not true. The majority of people know only a few attributes or ceremonies that Judaism is using until modern times, such as Menorah (the candelabrum with seven branches), Star of David (traditionally known as the symbol of Judaism) and, let’s say, the Bar Mitzvah ceremony. What people are missing (apart from the associations) is how truly symbolic all of them are in the practice of Judaism. Bar or Bat Mitzvah, for example, present practically the basis of Jewish culture and religion. The idea of how and why it became so important is what we will try to look through.
Jewish Historical Origin/ Time of Year The Jewish religious tradition of Rosh Hashanah celebrates the birthday of the world and a time of divine judgment. It is then followed by another holiday, called Yom Kippur, ten days later. These two traditions are called the High Holidays. Rosh Hashanah encapsulates four major and interconnected themes, which are: The Jewish New Year, The Day of Shofar Blowing, The Day of Remembrance, and The Day of Judgment (Layton, 2014).
By giving back through your words and actions, the holiday can be a very graceful and godly time when individuals can reflect and try to make themselves a better person. These holidays allow spiritual growth, which is one of the most vital aspects of the Jewish religion. Without an absolute understanding of gratitude, faith, and humbling yourself before God, this religion is not truly embraced, by embracing these aspects the religion can be illuminated in all ways and seen as one of the most beautiful parts of life.
Rosh Hashanah is celebrated by Orthodox Jews everywhere and is part of the Jewish tradition. holiest day of the year. Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year, but, in. contrast with the New Year of other peoples, it is greeted not. with noise and joy, but with a serious and repentant heart.
In relation to the other canonical books of the Old Testament, the book of Esther of the Hebrew version contains unique theological figure, which involves the removal of the name of God and the direct absences of various important religious elements essential to a Jewish or Hebrew religious writings. The book of Esther is never referred to either in the New Testament nor the Dead Sea Scrolls, neither did the early church fathers rarely even referred to it in their writings. The book of Esther seems to be “anthropocentric,” and other than fasting there does not seem to any references or any implied points to the religious perspectives on God, Law, covenants and many other important themes that play central role in the Bible as a whole. Due to the lack or deliberate omission of God and various other religious references from the book, scholars have approached and viewed the book as doubtful and question the validity and the canonicity of the book. The book is supposed to contain some theological references and objectives therefore the book is understood by Biblical scholars in light of the commencement of the festival of Purim. Biblical scholars have approached the book with hesitance and have not given a clear and concise understanding on the much neglected and misunderstood theology of the book of Esther. Biblical scholars throughout the ages have regarded the book of Esther as questionable in moral, religious, ethical and cultural values.
Here in the United States of America on the forth Thursday in November each year we, as a nation and as individual families, celebrate Thanksgiving. For most Americans we bring out our best dishes and have an enormous meal with turkey, dressing, green bean casserole and pumpkin pie. Families gather together, we eat until we are stuffed, we play games and watch football, but why? Have we lost the true meaning behind the beginning our nation? We have our tradition but somehow we have lost them important meaning of the treacherous start of a nation. Like various other cultures that have a celebration of thanks the Jews have a Passover celebration with rich family meal inundated with tradition and meaning. They have not forgotten why they celebrate. The hardship that they endured and the pivotal point in the transformation of their freedom to a better life is vividly remembered with Passover each year and passed down from generation to generation. If we reincorporate the true story of thanksgiving into our celebrations, we should be able to ensure a change in ourselves and our families to come together and become a stronger nation.
...ngs in the palace, the Kings signet ring and written edicts exemplifying power, feasting and more feasting. However, it is the Feast of the Purim that symbolizes the purpose of the story. Ironic that the story opens with feasting of the Persians for reasons unknown and close with the Jews feasting celebrating their rescue from annihilation. The plot works with or without a theological inference.
The Ways in Which Shabbat is Observed in Jewish Homes and in the Synagogue Shabbat, the Jewish holy day, begins at sunset on Friday night and ends Saturday night when the first star appears. It usually lasts 25 hours. Jewish people observe Shabbat in many different ways. On Shabbat, Jews are forbidden to work. This is because they believe that on their holy day they should devote themselves entirely to praying, worshipping God and studying the Torah.
In regards to religion, most of the Jewish population practice Judaism. Judaism is one of the world’s oldest religions, being over three thousand years old (Schub T & Pravikoff D, 2013). One religious practice of the Jews is circumcising their sons. The Jewish Written Law, or Torah, compels the father to make sure that his son is circumcised on the eighth day of life. Although the topic of circumcision is somewhat controversial, the Jews strongly believe that the ritual is created by G-d himself and that “He certainly knows what’s good and not good for us” (Rich T.R., 2011). In addition to religious practices, Jews tend to have a resting day, also known as Sabbath Day. During Sabbath, the Jews avoid any form of work, which includes driving, walking, and even going as far as to refrain from pressing the bedside button in a hospital setting (Schu...
One area in which the Jewish lifestyle has made a clear impact is on the stock market. A known adage around the stock exchange is “sell Rosh Hashanah, buy Yom Kippur,” the saying highlights the seasonal weakness that habitually occurs between those two Jewish holidays. It's similar to the "Sell in May and go away" maxim. The market-related proverb originated decades ago when the common practice for Jewish investors to sell their stocks on Rosh Hashanah so they could focus on their prayers became known. Jewish investors, without the distraction of havin...
...fter Rosh Hashanah by fasting and praying all day. Yom Kippur is the holiest day in the Jewish year. Every Saturday of the week is called Shabbat and is described as the day that God used as a day to rest after creating the world. There are also three traditional “Pilgrimage festivals”. Passover and season of rejoicing are both eight-day fruit harvested festival that celebrate Israelites success while Festival of weeks is a wheat-harvest festival that commemorates God’s revelation of the Torah on Mount Sinai. In the modern state of Israel a few other national Holidays are acknowledged to commemorate a historical event. These holidays include Jerusalem day, Independence Day, Memorial Day, and day of the Shoah. Day of the Shoah or Yom Hashoah is remembrance of the six million Jews killed during the Holocaust. 50-70% of the victims of the Holocaust were Orthodox Jews.
The Passover starts out as the threat made to the people of God over many years with the Egyptians. Pharaoh is a man with great power that has cruel intentions and
Many holidays are celebrated around the world, and all of them follow a different set of ideologies. Some ideologies may be religious, political,
According to the Jewish Talmud, the observance of the Sabbath is equal to all of the commandments combined. The Sabbath allows the Jewish people to rest or to cease. God desires that his creations should rest at least one day out of the week; this special day is to be celebrated by not performing any acts that would be considered work. For the Jewish people, the Sabbath begins from Friday sundown to Saturday sundown (The Sabbath). During this period of time, Jews are commanded to avoid working or doing anything that would be considered working. For example, Jews are not even allowed to push the elevator button since that action is deemed as work. The commandments, or mitzvot, reiterate the importance of rest from when God created the world. The Sabbath is a day in which Jews are commanded to observe and remember the creation story. The purpose of the Sabbath is to appreciate the contribution a person makes when he works. By stopping for 25 hours every week, people are able to reflect upon what we take for granted everyday. Everyday activities that we take for granted could be having air conditioning, running water, having food on the table everyday,