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
Shacharit, Mincha and Ma’ariv at the same hours, with the Matriarchs always in the Amidah.
Calendar
The Hebrew year, with one day of each festival wherever you are.
Scripture
The weekly Torah portion with its Haftarah, the whole Tanakh, Tehillim, and blessings for waking, meals and more.
Before prayer
A washing of the hands, simply and unhurriedly, and setting your intention, your kavanah.
Your choices
An annual or triennial Torah cycle, and whether Shabbat and Yom Tov are kept as days of rest.
Its year
Coming up
Free, with no app needed: the holy days appear in your own calendar and keep themselves up to date.
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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, Reform 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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