J3 - Festivals, fasts, pilgrimages and historic places Flashcards

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Shabbat

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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

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Preparation for Shabbat

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Home cleaned before
Many Jews make preparations so that they do not use/at least switch on electrical during Shabbat

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Yom Kippur

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Day of atonement (asking forgiveness to God)
Shabbat of Shabbats
10 days after Rosh Hashanah

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Pesach/Passover

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pilgrimage festival in Jerusalem
Exodus story of the last plague(10th)

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Sukkot

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feast of tabernacles (tents/shelters)
reminder of Israelistes used to live in shelfters

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Shavuot

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festival of weeks (wheat harvest), but know focused on delivery of torah to Israel

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Simchat Tora

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‘Rejoicing the torah’ (after sukkot)
celebration of finishing yearly cycle of reading the Torah, preparing new cycle

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Jerusalem - western wall

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Only remaining wall of Teple/Mount

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Yad Vashem

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Holocaust Memorial
difficial Hholocause

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