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Festivals

Festivals. Shabbat/Sabbath. Shabbat - Sabbath. When: Friday evening from sunset until Saturday at sunset. (Weekly) History: - How God made the world. Worked for six days and rested on the seventh. Fourth Commandment. A special gift of rest and peace. What Happens Now:

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Festivals

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  1. Festivals

  2. Shabbat/Sabbath

  3. Shabbat - Sabbath When: Friday evening from sunset until Saturday at sunset. (Weekly) History: -How God made the world. Worked for six days and rested on the seventh. Fourth Commandment. A special gift of rest and peace.

  4. What Happens Now: • Most important parts happen at home • Meal Friday evening: Mom lights two candles and says prayer, Dad blesses children and says blessing over cup of wine (Kiddush) • Meal- the best of week -and includes two loaves of bread (Challah) • Cannot work, clean, cook on Sabbath • Ends Saturday with a plaited candle lit and special spices opened – smell lingers all week to remind you of the calm of the Sabbath

  5. Purim

  6. Purim – The Feast of Esther When: Started in the 4th Century Happens now in Feb/March. About 1 day. History: The book of Esther. Esther was a good queen. A bad man (Haman) in Persia (now Iran) wanted to kill the Jews. Jewish Queen Esther bravely invited King and Haman to a feast and told the King the truth. Jews were saved and Haman was killed.

  7. What happens now: • Three day fast before to remember what Esther went through • Story read in synagogue. When Haman’s name is said people hiss, stomp, and use graggers (noise makers) or whistles • Give money to poor • Eat three cornered pastries – Hamantashen • Masks and costumes are worn to remind us that God is disguised in others

  8. Pesach / Passover

  9. Pesach - Passover • When: Spring. One Month after Purim • History: Delivering children of Israel from Egypt. (Blood on the door post to save them.) • Story of Exodus • Reminds them that God is good. Death passed over houses. Jews passed over the Red Sea.

  10. Seder Meal On the Plate: • Shank Bone: Lamb killed for blood on the doorposts • Hard Boiled Egg: New life symbol, sacrifice in the temple • Green Vegetables/ Parsley: God cared for Jews in the wilderness • Bitter Herbs: Horse radish. The bitterness of slavery • Charoset: Apples, nuts, spices, wine. Mortar used by the slaves

  11. Bowl of Salt Water: Tears of the people/slaves. (Dip parsley or lettuce in it.) • Matzah: Flat cakes of unleavened bread. (What Jews ate as they escaped.) • Wine: Drunk four times during the meal. God made four promises to Moses Note: All Leavened products are removed the night before Passover

  12. Shavuot / Shabuot

  13. Shavuot / Shabuot – Feast of Pentecost When: Seven weeks after Passover History: When God gave Moses the ten commandments. Thank God for the fruits of Harvest What Happens Now: Decorate the synagogue with fruits/flowers like the temple used to be. • Service in synagogue with story of ten commandments • Festival at home including two round loaves with ladders (Moses had to climb the mount.)

  14. Rosh Hashanah

  15. Rosh Hashanah – Jewish New Year • When: Two days in Sept. or Oct. • History: Remember how God made the world • What Happens: Begins a solemn ten days. Reflect on deeds of past year and hopes of the coming one. • Shofar sounded daily for a month before to remind people to ask for forgiveness. • Apple dipped in honey the night before. – Special meal for a sweet New Year

  16. Yom Kippur

  17. Yom Kippur – Holiest Day • When: 10 days after Rosh Hashanah • History: Isaiah 58:5-7. Long biblical tradition as the most important holyday. • What Happens Now: Fast for 25 hours- from food and drinking • Devoted to confession of sins. • Forgive and forget

  18. Sukkot(h)

  19. Sukkot(h) – Tabernacles or Booths • When:Near Yom Kippur in the fall. Lasts for 8 days • History: Gathering of the harvest. One of three pilgrim feasts in ancient times when people took trips to the temple. (Exodus 34:18-26) – Used to leave offerings in the temple and sleep in tents. • What Goes on Now: Now people eat outside. Decorate the synagogue. Like Thanksgiving.

  20. Hanukah

  21. Hanukah – Feast of Lights • When: Beginning of December – Lasts 8 days. • History: Over 2,000 years ago a small group called the Maccabees rebelled against the Greeks for three years. The temple was misused. The Maccabees made it clean again. They relit the lamp. There was only enough oil for one day, but it lasted eight. • Now: Candles lit each day with special prayers. Happy time with parties, presents, dreidle/ dreidel. (Letters spell a great miracle happened here.

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