Judaism has many holidays and Holy Days. The main holy days are:
1 Rosh Hashanah - The Jewish New Year
2 Yom Kippur - Day of Atonement
3 Sukkot - Feast of Booths (or Tabernacles)
4 Pesach - Passover
5 Shavuot - Feast of Weeks - Yom HaBikurim
The holiest day on the calendar is Shabbat (The Sabbath) which occurs every Friday night at sundown to Saturday night after twilight.
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 (or Tabernacles)
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 Pesach - Passover
11 Sefirah - Counting of the Omer
12 Lag Ba'omer
13 Shavuot - Feast of Weeks - Yom HaBikurim
14 Seventeenth of Tammuz
15 The Three Weeks and the Nine Days
16 Tisha B'av - Ninth of Av
17 Rosh Chodesh - the New Moon
18 Shabbat - The Sabbath - שבת
19 Yom HaShoah - Holocaust Remembrance day
20 Yom Hazikaron - Memorial Day
21 Yom Ha'atzmaut - Israel Independence Day
22 Yom Yerushalaim - Jerusalem Day
23 Fast of Esther
24 Fast of Gedaliah
Some Jews don't apply any principles of Judaism at any time.
Some Jews do some Jewish things on Rosh Hashana and/or Yom Kippur.
Some Jews practice some Jewish customs on other Jewish holidays, and on the Sabbath.
Some Jews who have learned a good deal about Judaism, and have thought about it enough to understand it,
have found out that Judaism is actually a way of life, and that there is a Jewish way to do everything that a person
encounters in his day.
Those are the Jews who celebrate and practice Judaism all the time, 24/7/365.
Judaism itself isn't celebrated, but it does contain many celebrations. Here are some:
the birth of a child
the circumcision of a baby boy
marriages
bar/bat mitzva
Sabbath and festivals (see attached Related Link)
It depends on the festivals. Many (like Purim, Passover, and Hanukah) can be summed up as follows: They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat.
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However, many festivals, in particular Rosh HaShanna (Jewish New Year) and Yom Kippur (day of atonement) are celebrated by prayer and getting together with family. In addition, one fasts for 24 hours on Yom Kippur.
There is a lot of information on the web about the different Jewish Holidays.
With joy in fulfilling God's commands.
Through the festive occasions: Sabbath, Passover, Shavuos, Rosh Hashana,Sukkoth,
Purim, Chanuka.
Through happy occasions: births, circumcisions, Bar mitzva, weddings.
Many of these holidays are found in Leviticus ch.23. Other occasions are more recent; specifically Purim (2375 years), Hanukkah (2200 years), and the fasts marking the Destruction of the Temple (Zechariah 7:3 and 8:19).The holidays begin at sunset and last until after nightfall around 25 hours later. They serve to enrich the Jewish year and to connect the people with their past.
All of these days are marked by added prayers and Torah-readings; and each has its specific observances.
Fast days:
Judaism has six yearly fasts. The fasts start shortly before dawn and end at twilight, except for Yom Kippur and Tisha B'Av which start the evening before at sunset and last for 25 hours.
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The Fast of Esther commemorates the danger that the Jews were in, during the events described in the Book of Esther.
The sixth fast, Yom Kippur, is the Day of Atonement, commanded in Leviticus 23:26-32.
Each festival has its specific purpose and laws:
Reasons for the holidays:
Every one of them has as its purpose "remembering the Exodus from Egypt" (as stated in our prayers and the kiddush over wine). In addition, Passover is a Thanksgiving to God for the barley-harvest, Shavuot is a thanksgiving to God for the wheat-harvest, and Sukkot is a thanksgiving to God for the ingathering of grain.
Shavuot also celebrates the Giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai, and Sukkot commemorates God having protected us in the wilderness.
It may also be noted that it is instinctive and a moral and emotional need to celebrate in front of God every so often. This was Cain's motivation in making his offering in Genesis ch.4 without having been commanded.
Had God not given us the Torah-festivals listed above, we might instinctively seek out those of the Canaanites, which the Torah warns against (Exodus 34:15) immediately before listing the Jewish festivals (in the following verses).
Baptism is a Christian concept.
In Judaism, the Sabath is celebrated on saturdays, and you can not do work of any kind.
Kwanzaa is a Jewish holiday celebrated in december.
Judaism does not worship any days of the week. There are prayers that are prescribed to be recited on every weekday, and there is a significantly different way of life, along with significantly different prayers, to be celebrated on Saturday.
Passover is a religious celebration not a national one. Those people that follow Judaism in Japan would celebrate it.
Christmas is not celebrated by the Jews, because they do not accept Jesus as being anything more than just another human being. Only Christians celebrate Christmas, the birth of Jesus Christ.
There is no such thing as "Jewish Christmas". As Jesus plays no role whatsoever in Judaism, there is no Jewish holiday celebrating his birth.
Whether or not it's celebrated, observed, or even acknowledged, the Shabbat is the seventh day, which, in Judaism, corresponds to Saturday. As in many other ancient cultures, each day in Judaism is considered to begin at sundown and end at the following sundown. Accordingly, the Shabbat begins at sundown on Friday evening and extends until sundown on Saturday evening. Those who observe it, whether in the synagogue, in their homes, or in some part of their private lives, observe it during that period of time.
Yes, Shabbat is celebrated every week in Judaism. It begins on Friday evening at sundown and lasts until Saturday evening at sundown. It is a day of rest and spiritual rejuvenation, involving prayer, family meals, and refraining from work and certain activities.
There are no rooms in Judaism. Judaism is a religion, not a building.
Judaism is called Judaism.
Opposite of the lack of Judaism? Judaism.