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Jewish
holiday is also known as the Jewish festival. It is observed
by the Jews throughout the calendar year. It has three principal
sources- the Biblical mitzvoth which are the commandments, the
Rabbinical mandate and the Modern Israeli history.
There
are various terms which are used quite commonly for the group of such
holidays. The term High Holy Days (English language) and yom kippur,
collectively. It is a Hebrew analogue. Yamin Nora’im which means
days of Awe. The term Three Pilgrimage festivals refer to the
Passover, Shavuot and the sukkot. In this group, Shemini Atzeret and
simchat torah are also included.
A
different terminology is used to describe different types of Jewish holidays sukkot depending on their nature and the source.
Shabbat, also known as Sabbath is known by its name. In the same way
Rosh Chodesh is also known by its own name.
The
most significant feature of Shabbat and other Biblical festivals is
the need to restrict from melacha on such days. Melacha is known as
work. In a better way it can be defined as the creative constructive
work. In the Jewish law, Melacha has been differentiated into thirty
nine categories of labour. This labour was employed to construct the
Tabernaacle when the Hews were wandering in the desert. During
weekdays, Melacha is not prohibited. But it should be limited to the
requirement in order to increase the joy of the remaining festival or
to ignore any kind of financial loss.
The
observance of festival fairly resembles the observance which is
orthodox. Only a single day is specified by the Torah for observing
the holiday. Festivals originating from the Bible apart from Shabbat
and Yom kippur, are celebrated for more than 2 days. But these
festivals are celebrated on the land poutsode the Israel. Rosh
Hashanah is celebrated for 2 days even in Israel.
The
dates of Jewish holidays in the calendar are signified in the
Torah calendar as the day x of month y. According to this the
beginning of the month Y has to be decided before the exact date of
holiday on the day X can be declared. In the Jewish calendar the
months are lunar and previously could be only proclaimed by Sanhedrin
which was based on testimony of witnesses who said that they saw the
New Crescent moon. The Sanhedrin then used to inform the communities
of the Jewish, far away from the meeting place. The trend of
following the second day of the festival emerged from the delay in
communicating this information.
