REL 2029 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Rosh Hashanah, Simchat Torah, Sukkot
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Gained new meaning: added historical-events-celebrations to the ancient agricultural festivals. Main(high) and minor holidays, and even more minor ones: based on several concentrical cycles of understanding the purity of time: year, season, month, day. (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Fall: rosh hashana: new year anniversary of creation, yom kippur: day of atonement, lev. 23:27: sukkoth: giving thanks for the harvest, 40 years of wandering, simchat torah: completion of the annual reading of the torah. in the desert. Winter: hanukah: maccabees, celebration of victory against syrians, temple worship is saved, 8 days of miracle, tubsvat: lev. 19, jewish arbor day, celebration of spring (renewal) by planting. Spring: purim: esther, celebration of victory over not being annihilated by persians, passover: exodus, seder: commemoration of exodus from, lag baomer: lev. 23, 15, , offering of crop at the temple, Summer: shavout: remembering the torah reception at mount sinai, 7 weeks after passover, pilgrimage festival of bringing crop offerings to jerusalem temple. (cid:1)
