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| ''For laws relating to Jewish holidays, see [[Yom Tov]]''
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| '''Jewish holidays''', (Hebrew: Yamim Tovim, ימים טובים, singular Yom Tov, יום טוב) occur throughout the year. The Halachik status of holidays vary, depending on the origin of the festival.
| | <td><span class="style5">'''Yom Tov'''</span></td> |
| | | <td><span class="style5">'''Rosh Hashana'''</span></td> |
| ==List of Jewish Holidays== | | <td><span class="style5">'''Yom Kippur'''</span></td> |
| | | <td><span class="style5">'''Sukkot'''</span></td> |
| *[[Chodesh Elul]] is the month of repentance heralding the new year, during which the shofar is blown daily and [[Selichot]] are recited.
| | <td><span class="style5">'''Chanukah'''</span></td> |
| *[[Rosh Hashana]] is the Jewish new year, on which the Shofar is blown in coronation of Hashem over the world.
| | <td><span class="style5">'''Purim'''</span></td> |
| *[[Aseret Yimei Teshuva]] are the ten days of repentance between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.
| | <td><span class="style5">'''Pesach'''</span></td> |
| *[[Yom Kippur]] is the day of atonement, when the judgement for the year is sealed.
| | <td><span class="style5">'''Shavout'''</span></td> |
| *[[Sukkot]] is the holiday when Jews sit in a Sukkah and shake the Arba Minim (Lulav, Etrog, Hadasim, and Aravot).
| | <td><span class="style5">'''Fast Days'''</span></td> |
| *[[Shemini Aseret]] is the one day holiday that concludes the Tishrei series of Yamim Tovim.
| | <td><span class="style5">'''Rosh Chodesh'''</span></td> |
| *[[Simchat Torah]] is the day celebrating the concluding of the Torah.
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| *[[Chanukah]] is the eight day festival of lights.
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| *[[Tu BiShevat]] is the new year for the trees.
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| *[[Purim]] is commemorating the hidden miracles that saved the Jewish people from Haman's plot to annihilate the nation.
| | <td>[[showering on yom tov]]</td> |
| *[[Purim Katan]] is the 14th of the first Adar of a leap year.
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| *[[Pesach]] is the holiday when Jews celebrate the exodus from Egypt with the seder, Matzah, Maror, and no Chametz.
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| *[[Sefirat HaOmer]] is the counting of the Omer from Pesach to Shavuot.
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| *[[Yom HaAtzmaut]] is Israeli Independence Day.
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| *[[Lag BaOmer]] is the 33rd day of the Omer, on which Rabbi Akiva's students stopped dying in a plague.
| | <td>[[Month of Adar]]</td> |
| *[[Shavuot]] is the holiday when Jews celebrate the receiving of the Torah with all night Torah study and dairy foods.
| | <td>[[flashlight for Bedikat hcametz]]</td> |
| *[[Yom Tov]] means holidays on which non-food related Melacha is prohibited.
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| *[[Chol HaMoed]] are the intermediate days between the first day of Yom Tov and the last day of Yom Tov.
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| *[[Rosh Chodesh]] is the beginning of the new month.
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| *[[Three Weeks]] is the three weeks of mourning over the destruction of the Beit HaMikdash, beginning with [[Shiva Asar BeTamuz]] and ending with [[Tisha BeAv]].
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| *[[Nine Days]] is the nine days of the month of Av, from Rosh Chodesh to Tisha BeAv, during which the mourning practices become more intense.
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| *[[Fast Days]] are days of mourning for specific tragedies in Jewish history.
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| *[[Tisha BeAv]], the day of compounded tragedy for the Jewish nation.
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| *[[Tu BeAv]] (Tu B'Av), the day of much celebration for the Jewish nation.
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| ===Jewish holidays by month=== | | <td>[[Chanukah candle lighting| candle lighting]]</td> |
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| | <td>[[Kitniyot]]</td> |
| !Month!!Jewish holidays and related events
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| !<div align="left">'''Tishrei'''
| | <td>[[Kiddush Levana]]</td> |
| |[[Rosh Hashana]] - [[Aseret Yimei Teshuva]] - [[Yom Kippur]] - [[Sukkot]] - [[Chol HaMoed|Chol HaMoed Sukkot]] - [[Shemini Aseret]] - [[Simchat Torah]]
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| !<div align="left">'''Kislev'''
| | <td> </td> |
| |[[Chanukah]]
| | <td> </td> |
| |-
| | <td> </td> |
| !<div align="left">'''Teves'''
| | <td> </td> |
| |[[Fast Days#Asara B'Tevet|Asara B'Tevet]]
| | <td>[[Hallel of Chanuka]]</td> |
| |-
| | <td> </td> |
| !<div align="left">'''Shevat'''
| | <td> </td> |
| |[[Tu BiShevat]]
| | <td> </td> |
| |-
| | <td> </td> |
| !<div align="left">'''Adar'''
| | <td> </td> |
| |[[Tanit Ester]] - [[Purim]] - [[Purim Katan]]
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| !<div align="left">'''Nissan'''
| | <td> </td> |
| |[[Tanit Bechorot]] - [[Pesach]] - [[Chol HaMoed|Chol HaMoed Pesach]] - [[Sefirat HaOmer]]
| | <td> </td> |
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| | <td> </td> |
| !<div align="left">'''Iyar'''
| | <td> </td> |
| |[[Yom HaAtzmaut]] - [[Pesach Sheni]] - [[Lag BaOmer]]
| | <td>[[Mourning and Fasting on Chanuka]]</td> |
| |-
| | <td> </td> |
| !<div align="left">'''Sivan'''
| | <td> </td> |
| |[[Shavuot]]
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| |-
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| !<div align="left">'''Tammuz'''
| | <td> </td> |
| |[[Fast Days#Shiva Asar BeTamuz|Shiva Asar BeTamuz]] - [[Three Weeks]]
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| !<div align="left">'''Menachem Av'''
| | <td> </td> |
| |[[Nine Days]] - [[Tisha BeAv]] - [[Tu BeAv]]
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| !<div align="left">'''Elul'''
| | <td> </td> |
| |[[Chodesh Elul]]
| | <td>[[Lighting in Shul]]</td> |
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| !<div align="left">'''Misc.'''
| | <td> </td> |
| |[[Yom Tov]] - [[Second Day of Yom Tov|Yom Tov Sheni]] - [[Rosh Chodesh]] - [[Issru Chag]]
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| ==See also==
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| *[[Shabbat]]
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| | <td>[[Foods on Chanuka]]</td> |
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