My Jewish friend told me that it is Rosh Hashanah, then after that Yom Kippur. Don't think that Hanukkah and Passover are more important than these two. Yes the Sabbath would technically be first, but that's a given.
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Technically, Yom Kippur is more important than Rosh Hashanah or anything else except the Sabbath.
The Jews have many important holidays:
1 Rosh Hashanah - The Jewish New Year
2 Aseret Yemei Teshuva - Ten Days of Repentance
3 Yom Kippur - Day of Atonement
4 Sukkot - Feast of Booths (or Tabernacles)
5 Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah
6 Hanukkah - Festival of Lights
7 Tenth of Tevet
8 Tu Bishvat - New Year of the Trees
9 Purim - Festival of Lots
10 New Year for Kings
11 Pesach - Passover
12 Sefirah - Counting of the Omer
13 Lag Ba'omer
14 Shavuot - Feast of Weeks - Yom HaBikurim
15 Seventeenth of Tammuz
16 The Three Weeks and the Nine Days
17 Tisha B'av - Ninth of Av
18 Tithe of animals
19 Rosh Chodesh - the New Month
20 Shabbat - The Sabbath - שבת
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21 Yom HaShoah - Holocaust Remembrance day
22 Yom Hazikaron - Memorial Day
23 Yom Ha'atzmaut - Israel Independence Day
24 Yom Yerushalaim - Jerusalem Day
The most important day to Jews is the Sabbath, which starts from Friday night until Saturday night. The most important holiday to Jews is Yom Kippur, where judgment for the coming year is sealed. They are both extremely holy days.
Rosh Hashanah (New Year's Day in September/October) and Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) are together known as the High Holidays - this makes them arguably the "most important."
The "shalosh regalim" (the Three Festivals) are also very important; they are starting with the Hebrew month of Nissan: Pesach (Passover), Shavuot (Festival of Weeks or Festival of First Fruits) and lastly Sukkot (Festival of Booths). Note that the times of Pesach and Shavuot were adapted by Christians for the celebration of Easter (Latin name = Pascha) and Pentecost (the Greek origin of this name making reference to the fact that Shavuot is seven weeks and a day/fifty days after Pesach).
After the Shalosh Regalim comes Purim, and finally as least important of the ancient holidays is Channukah.
There are also minor holidays like Tu beShvat (New Year's for the trees) as well as fast days peppered all over the Hebrew calendar.
1 Rosh Hashanah - The Jewish New Year
2 Aseret Yemei Teshuva - Ten Days of Repentance
3 Yom Kippur - Day of Atonement
4 Sukkot - Feast of Booths (or Tabernacles)
5 Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah
6 Hanukkah - Festival of Lights
7 Tenth of Tevet
8 Tu Bishvat - New Year of the Trees
9 Purim - Festival of Lots
10 Pesach - Passover
11 Sefirah - Counting of the Omer
12 Lag Ba'omer
13 Shavuot - Feast of Weeks - Yom HaBikurim
14 Seventeenth of Tammuz
15 The Three Weeks and the Nine Days
16 Tisha B'av - Ninth of Av
17 Rosh Chodesh - the New Month
18 Shabbat - The Sabbath - שבת
19 Yom HaShoah - Holocaust Remembrance day
20 Yom Hazikaron - Memorial Day
21 Yom Ha'atzmaut - Israel Independence Day
22 Yom Yerushalaim - Jerusalem Day
The most important holiday of Judaism, is Shabbat, which occurs every week, from Friday night at sundown, to Saturday night at sundown.
Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashana, Shabbat, and Passover
Shabbat, which begins every Friday night at sundown and ends Saturday night after twilight.
Yom Kippur is more important than Rosh Hashanah or anything else except the Sabbath. See also:
Passover
the most important holiday of the jewish religion is hanukkah
The holiday of Pesach (Passover) is one of the most important holidays of the Jewish year.
The Buddhist holiday of Bodhi; The Wiccan holiday of Solstice; The Asatru holiday of Yule; The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah; the Christian holiday of Christmas; the manmade American holiday of Kwanzaa; the manmade American holiday of Festivus.
No, it iss one of the minor holidays.
Passover is a Jewish holiday. Holy week is a Christian event.
Jewish holidays have varying levels of specialness and holiness. While Hanukkah is certainly special, it is a minor holiday, not as important as (for example) Passover.
A Jewish Holiday,known as the Holiday of Ingathering.
Kwanzaa is a Jewish holiday celebrated in december.
Yes; it is one of the minor Jewish holidays. Lots of non-jewish people think Chanukkah is the most important holiday to us, and that is simply not true.
A Jewish Holiday,known as the Holiday of Ingathering.
Hanukah.
NO it is a Jewish holiday