Rosh Hashanah
The New Year, which opens the Ten Days of Awe in the autumn with the sound of the shofar; Karaites keep the day as Yom Teruah.
In ActivePray
Kept by its own rules
Prayers
Tefillat Boker at first light and Tefillat Erev at sunset, worked out from the sun where you are.
Calendar
Months begin with the new crescent seen from the Land of Israel, and the year with the ripening barley, the aviv.
Dates are projected, then confirmed when a sighting is reported.
Days of rest
Shabbat and the Torah’s holy convocations.
They never cost your streak, and no reminder sounds inside them.
Scripture
The whole Tanakh, Torah, Prophets and Writings, in Hebrew and English, with Tehillim.
Before prayer
The washing of hands and feet, after the priestly washing in Exodus 30:19.
Its year
Coming up
Free, with no app needed: the holy days appear in your own calendar and keep themselves up to date.
Opens in Apple Calendar and Outlook. For Google Calendar, copy the link and add it under Other calendars, From URL.
Karaite dates are projected, and may move a day once the new moon is sighted.
The holy days
Its holy days, year by year
Yom Kippur
The Day of Atonement, which closes the Ten Days of Awe: return and repentance, and a full day’s fast.
Sukkot
A week of meals in a sukkah, a simple shelter open to the sky, remembering the years in the wilderness and giving thanks for the harvest.
Purim
The deliverance told in the Book of Esther, read aloud.
Pesach
Passover in the spring: the seder retells the going out from Egypt over matzah and wine.
Shavuot
Seven weeks after Passover, the giving of the Torah at Sinai.
Tisha B’Av
The fast in the month of Av for the destruction of the Temples in Jerusalem.
In ActivePray, Karaite Judaism keeps its own prayers at their hours, its own year and its own scripture, with none set above another branch.
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