The celebration of the Jewish holidays

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. For more informations visit http://mjbi.org/jewish_holidays.php.