The day of rest and weekly observance of God’s completion of creation.
Rosh Hashanah
The Jewish New Year—a holiday observed with festive meals and a day spent in prayer or quiet meditation.
Yom Kippur
The Jewish Day of Atonement—the most solemn day of the Jewish year. A day devoted to self–examination, and the chance to begin the New Year with a clean slate.
Sukkot
A celebration of the fall harvest, this holiday also commemorates the time when the Hebrews dwelt in the Sinai wilderness on their way to the Promised Land.
Shemini Atzeret
Literally the “8th day of assembly,” this holiday marks the end of Sukkot with an annual prayer for rain.
Simchat Torah
The day marking the end and the beginning of the annual Torah reading cycle.
Hanukkah
A festival celebrating liberation from oppression, freedom of worship, and finding light in the darkest of times.
Tu B’Shevat
The Jewish “New Year of the Trees,” celebrated with observances that connect us to our environment and the natural world.
Purim
A day celebrating the saving of the Jews from a diabolical plot of destruction, as recounted in the Book of Esther.
Passover
A festival of freedom that marks the Hebrew exodus from Egypt long ago.
Christmas trees?
Jeremiah 10:1-49
1 Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
2 Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
Ishtar eggs?
These holidays are not Biblical.
These ones are-
Shabbat
The day of rest and weekly observance of God’s completion of creation.
Rosh Hashanah
The Jewish New Year—a holiday observed with festive meals and a day spent in prayer or quiet meditation.
Yom Kippur
The Jewish Day of Atonement—the most solemn day of the Jewish year. A day devoted to self–examination, and the chance to begin the New Year with a clean slate.
Sukkot
A celebration of the fall harvest, this holiday also commemorates the time when the Hebrews dwelt in the Sinai wilderness on their way to the Promised Land.
Shemini Atzeret
Literally the “8th day of assembly,” this holiday marks the end of Sukkot with an annual prayer for rain.
Simchat Torah
The day marking the end and the beginning of the annual Torah reading cycle. Hanukkah
A festival celebrating liberation from oppression, freedom of worship, and finding light in the darkest of times.
Tu B’Shevat
The Jewish “New Year of the Trees,” celebrated with observances that connect us to our environment and the natural world.
Purim
A day celebrating the saving of the Jews from a diabolical plot of destruction, as recounted in the Book of Esther.
Passover
A festival of freedom that marks the Hebrew exodus from Egypt long ago.