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where-to-start-your-first-holiday-cycle The Jewish year has a clear shape. Knowing the shape makes every individual holiday more meaningful. /articles/where-to-start-your-first-holiday-cycle.xml The Editors orientation https://pub-73c694f3dc3c4d0ea8f98f090d227a0d.r2.dev/article-images/your-first-holiday-cycle-crop-ms8ipz64-dacbb2a6-thumb.png Your First Holiday Cycle true true a-high-holiday-checklist What to bring, what to wear, when to fast, and what to expect at each High-Holiday service. /articles/a-high-holiday-checklist.xml The Editors essential calendar-how-the-jewish-calendar-works Lunar months adjusted to the solar year by a leap-month every two or three years — the calendar Hillel II formalized in 358/9 CE. /articles/calendar-how-the-jewish-calendar-works.xml The Editors essential calendar-the-parshah-cycle The Torah is divided into 54 parshiyot; one is read each Shabbat, completing the cycle annually on Simchat Torah. /articles/calendar-the-parshah-cycle.xml The Editors essential calendar-daf-yomi-a-page-a-day The 7.5-year program that has unified Jewish learning across the world since 1923. /articles/calendar-daf-yomi-a-page-a-day.xml The Editors deeper calendar-counting-the-omer-sefirat-haomer The 49-day count from the second night of Pesach to the eve of Shavuot — a Torah commandment, a practical bridge, and a Kabbalistic discipline. /articles/calendar-counting-the-omer-sefirat-haomer.xml The Editors essential holidays-yamim-noraim-rosh-hashanah The Jewish New Year — the Day of Judgment, the head of the Ten Days of Repentance, and the day on which the shofar is sounded. /articles/holidays-yamim-noraim-rosh-hashanah.xml The Editors essential holidays-yamim-noraim-yom-kippur The Day of Atonement — the holiest day of the year, observed with a 25-hour fast, five services, and white garments. /articles/holidays-yamim-noraim-yom-kippur.xml The Editors essential holidays-shalosh-regalim-sukkot Festival of Booths — seven days of dwelling in the sukkah and waving the four species, commemorating the Israelites' wandering. /articles/holidays-shalosh-regalim-sukkot.xml The Editors essential holidays-yom-tov-shemini-atzeret-and-simchat-torah The eighth-day festival following Sukkot — in Israel a single day, in the diaspora two — climaxing with the dance of Simchat Torah. /articles/holidays-yom-tov-shemini-atzeret-and-simchat-torah.xml The Editors essential holidays-shalosh-regalim-pesach Passover — the Festival of Freedom, the foundational story of the Jewish people, and the seder that is the most widely observed Jewish ritual in the world. /articles/holidays-shalosh-regalim-pesach.xml The Editors essential holidays-shalosh-regalim-shavuot The Festival of the Giving of the Torah — fifty days after Pesach, the early summer pilgrimage festival. /articles/holidays-shalosh-regalim-shavuot.xml The Editors essential holidays-rabbinic-festivals-hanukkah The eight-day winter festival commemorating the Maccabean victory and the miracle of the oil. /articles/holidays-rabbinic-festivals-hanukkah.xml The Editors essential holidays-rabbinic-festivals-purim The festival of Esther — the joyful deliverance of Persian Jewry, observed with the Megillah, gifts to the poor, mishloach manot, and the seudat Purim. /articles/holidays-rabbinic-festivals-purim.xml The Editors essential holidays-minor-tu-bishvat The New Year of the Trees — a Mishnaic minor festival recovered with great enthusiasm in modern times. /articles/holidays-minor-tu-bishvat.xml The Editors essential holidays-minor-lag-baomer The 33rd day of the Omer — the end of the spring period of mourning, observed with bonfires and visits to the grave of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai in Meron. /articles/holidays-minor-lag-baomer.xml The Editors essential holidays-fasts-tisha-bav The 9th of Av — the major fast day of the Jewish year, commemorating the destruction of both Temples and many other catastrophes. /articles/holidays-fasts-tisha-bav.xml The Editors essential holidays-fasts-the-four-minor-fasts Four daylight fast days frame the Jewish year with grief and remembrance. /articles/holidays-fasts-the-four-minor-fasts.xml The Editors deeper holidays-modern-observances-yom-hashoah Holocaust Remembrance Day — the 27th of Nisan, established by the Knesset in 1953. /articles/holidays-modern-observances-yom-hashoah.xml The Editors essential holidays-modern-observances-yom-hazikaron-and-yom-haatzmaut Israel's Memorial Day and Independence Day — observed back-to-back on the 4th and 5th of Iyar. /articles/holidays-modern-observances-yom-hazikaron-and-yom-haatzmaut.xml The Editors essential holidays-modern-observances-yom-yerushalayim The 28th of Iyar — commemorating the reunification of Jerusalem in the Six-Day War of 1967. /articles/holidays-modern-observances-yom-yerushalayim.xml The Editors essential