# Holidays

Source: Halachipedia: Holidays

Link: [https://halachipedia.com/index.php?title=Holidays](https://halachipedia.com/index.php?title=Holidays)

Categories: `Holidays`

Exported: 2025-12-30

*For laws relating to Jewish holidays, see [Yom Tov](https://halachipedia.com/index.php?title=Yom%20Tov)*

**Jewish holidays**, (Hebrew: Yamim Tovim, ימים טובים‎, singular Yom Tov, יום טוב) occur throughout the year. The Halachik status of holidays vary, depending on the origin of the festival.

## List of Jewish Holidays
* Chodesh Elul is the month of repentance heralding the new year, during which the shofar is blown daily and Selichot are recited.
* Rosh Hashana is the Jewish new year, on which the Shofar is blown in coronation of Hashem over the world.
* Aseret Yimei Teshuva are the ten days of repentance between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.
* Yom Kippur is the day of atonement, when the judgement for the year is sealed.
* Sukkot is the holiday when Jews sit in a Sukkah and shake the Arba Minim (Lulav, Etrog, Hadasim, and Aravot).
* Shemini Aseret is the one day holiday that concludes the Tishrei series of Yamim Tovim.
* Simchat Torah is the day celebrating the concluding of the Torah.
* Chanukah is the eight day festival of lights.
* Tu BiShevat is the new year for the trees.
* Purim is commemorating the hidden miracles that saved the Jewish people from Haman's plot to annihilate the nation.
* Purim Katan is the 14th of the first Adar of a leap year.
* Pesach is the holiday when Jews celebrate the exodus from Egypt with the seder, Matzah, Maror, and no Chametz.
* Sefirat HaOmer is the counting of the Omer from Pesach to Shavuot.
* Yom HaAtzmaut is Israeli Independence Day.
* Lag BaOmer is the 33rd day of the Omer, on which Rabbi Akiva's students stopped dying in a plague.
* Shavuot is the holiday when Jews celebrate the receiving of the Torah with all night Torah study and dairy foods.
* Yom Tov means holidays on which non-food related Melacha is prohibited.
* Chol HaMoed are the intermediate days between the first day of Yom Tov and the last day of Yom Tov.
* Rosh Chodesh is the beginning of the new month.
* Three Weeks is the three weeks of mourning over the destruction of the Beit HaMikdash, beginning with Shiva Asar BeTamuz and ending with Tisha BeAv.
* Nine Days is the nine days of the month of Av, from Rosh Chodesh to Tisha BeAv, during which the mourning practices become more intense.
* Fast Days are days of mourning for specific tragedies in Jewish history.
* Tisha BeAv, the day of compounded tragedy for the Jewish nation.
* Tu BeAv (Tu B'Av), the day of much celebration for the Jewish nation.

### Jewish holidays by month
| Month | Jewish holidays and related events |
| --- | --- |
| **Tishrei** | Rosh Hashana - Aseret Yimei Teshuva - Yom Kippur - Sukkot - Chol HaMoed Sukkot - Shemini Aseret - Simchat Torah |
| **Kislev** | Chanukah |
| **Teves** | [Asara B'Tevet](https://halachipedia.com/index.php?title=Fast%20Days#asara-b'tevet) |
| **Shevat** | Tu BiShevat |
| **Adar** | Tanit Ester - Purim - Purim Katan |
| **Nissan** | Tanit Bechorot - Pesach - Chol HaMoed Pesach - Sefirat HaOmer |
| **Iyar** | Yom HaAtzmaut - Pesach Sheni - Lag BaOmer |
| **Sivan** | Shavuot |
| **Tammuz** | [Shiva Asar BeTamuz](https://halachipedia.com/index.php?title=Fast%20Days#shiva-asar-betamuz) - Three Weeks |
| **Menachem Av** | Nine Days - Tisha BeAv - Tu BeAv |
| **Elul** | Chodesh Elul |
| **Misc.** | Yom Tov - Yom Tov Sheni - Rosh Chodesh - Issru Chag |

## See also
* Shabbat