Holidays

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Exported: 2025-12-30

For laws relating to Jewish holidays, see Yom Tov

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

See also

• Shabbat