Jewish events

 Rosh hushanah

·         Jewish new year

·         Falls once a year during the month of September

·         Lasts 1-2 days

·         Apple is dipped in honey

Passover

·         Begins on 15^th day of Jewish month Nissan.

·         Related to the exodus, around the time of Moses and Aaron

·         Cannot eat food containing yeast.

·         Celebrated for 7 or 8 days.

Shabbat

·         The day of rest

·         Takes place from Friday to Saturday

·         The family leaves work early (3pm) gets dressed into religious clothes, eat a meal, go to a service, come back and have another meal.

·         Turn off all lights (part of the 39 categories of forbidden acts.)

Shavuot

·         Known as the festival of weeks

·         Commences 7 weeks from Passover

·         Must eat a dairy meal at least once during Shavuot

·         Stay up the entire first night studying the Torah and pray as early as possible the next morning.

·         No work is allowed during this event.

Hanukkah

•       Hanukkah is a celebration of Jewish people gaining freedom. It is the most well known Jewish festival, but not the most significant as it is not written in the Torah.

•       It is celebrated for eight days and nights.

•       It begins on the 25^th of the  Jewish month of Kislev (late November/December)

•       In Hebrew the word “Hanukkah” means “dedication.”

•       Some of the Hanukkah traditions include: lighting the hanukkiyah, spinning the dreidel and eating fried foods.

•       Jews celebrate Hanukkah in replace of Christmas because they do not believe the Jesus is the Messiah.

     •Hanukkah means “Festival of Lights.”

     •This festival is observed for eight days, during which candles are lit

     •one on the first evening, another on the second, adding one more for every day in succession until eight candles are lit on the last day.

     •These lights symbolize growing faith.