J3 - Festivals, fasts, pilgrimages and historic places Flashcards
Shabbat
Day of rest, symbolise God’s day of rest on 7th day
Begins at sunset on Friday, end at sunst on Saturday
Specifically written in 10 commandments
Preparation for Shabbat
Home cleaned before
Many Jews make preparations so that they do not use/at least switch on electrical during Shabbat
Yom Kippur
Day of atonement (asking forgiveness to God)
Shabbat of Shabbats
10 days after Rosh Hashanah
Pesach/Passover
pilgrimage festival in Jerusalem
Exodus story of the last plague(10th)
Sukkot
feast of tabernacles (tents/shelters)
reminder of Israelistes used to live in shelfters
Shavuot
festival of weeks (wheat harvest), but know focused on delivery of torah to Israel
Simchat Tora
‘Rejoicing the torah’ (after sukkot)
celebration of finishing yearly cycle of reading the Torah, preparing new cycle
Jerusalem - western wall
Only remaining wall of Teple/Mount
Yad Vashem
Holocaust Memorial
difficial Hholocause