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Celebration is a very important aspect of Judaism. It marks the Jewish lifecycle, commemorates the past, and brings Joy to the present.

Judaism has many holidays and Holy Days. The main holy days are:

1 Rosh Hashanah - The Jewish New Year

2 Yom Kippur - Day of Atonement

3 Sukkot - Feast of Booths (or Tabernacles)

4 Pesach - Passover

5 Shavuot - Feast of Weeks - Yom HaBikurim

The holiest day on the calendar is Shabbat (The Sabbath) which occurs every Friday night at sundown to Saturday night at sundown.

This is a list of most of the major holidays and minor festivals:

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

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yom kippur, its not really a festival it a fast day, we beg forivness for our sins of the past year

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The festivals are commanded by the Torah. They commemorate the kindnesses that God did for us such as the Exodus. The observance of the festivals is a fulfillment of God's will.

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