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.
Judaism
Masorti Judaism
The three daily services, the traditional liturgy, and the weekly Torah reading.
In ActivePray
Kept by its own rules
Prayers
Shacharit at sunrise, Mincha in the early afternoon and Ma’ariv at nightfall, with Musaf on Shabbat and festivals.
Calendar
The Hebrew year: Rosh Chodesh, the festivals and the fasts, with a second day of Yom Tov outside the Land.
Days of rest
Shabbat and Yom Tov.
They never cost your streak, and no reminder sounds from the sunset that opens them until nightfall.
Scripture
The weekly Torah portion with its Haftarah, the whole Tanakh, Tehillim, and blessings for waking, meals and more.
Before prayer
The washing of the hands, with its blessing, al netilat yadayim.
Your choices
The Imahot in the Amidah, one or two days of Yom Tov, and an annual or triennial Torah cycle.
Its year
Coming up
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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.
Simchat Torah
The day the yearly reading of the Torah ends and begins again, with the scrolls carried round in dancing.
Chanukah
Eight nights of light for the rededication of the Temple, kept in rabbinic Judaism.
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, Masorti 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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