Here is your short paragraph on Yom Kippur: This is the holiest day in the Jewish calendar that occurs in the month of September or October, observed on the tenth day of the seventh month in the Hebrew calendar. After kindling the Yom Kippur lights at home on the eve of the day, the family, generally dressed fully in white, [...]
Here is your short paragraph on Tabernacles: A festival of merry-making, Feat of Booths is observed immediately after Yom Kippur. This falls in the month of September or October and Jews are enjoined to build booths or huts to mark the festival of Tabernacles in recalling of the temporary dwellings used by each Israelite family during the wandering in the [...]
Here is your short paragraph on Rosh-ha-Shana: This is the New Year's Day of the Jews that occur in the month of September or October, on the first day of the seventh month (Tishra) of the Hebrew calendar and is in commemoration of the agricultural life of ancestral Jewry when the year began with the first month of autumn. A [...]
Here is your short paragraph on Jewish festivals: Judaism evolved over many centuries before the common Era through the people known as the Israelites. The genesis of Jewish religion goes back to Abraham (the father of the people) who was born in Ur of the Chaldees (Babylonia -modern Iraq) approximately 4,000 years ago. He conceived the idea of Monotheism, the [...]