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⌈ Secret Post #3153 ⌋

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Re: Vent about things fans get wrong about certain cultures, languages, countries, etc

[ketita]

Sure! I'm rating these more in terms of "emotional importance" rather than "actual importance", because from a Jewish perspective it's kind of difficult to 'rate' holidays, for various reasons. Top-tier is all the ones listed in the Bible, but that's a bunch.

I'd probably rate the most important one emotionally as Passover, actually, aka Pesach. It's to celebrate when the Jews were freed from slavery in Egypt. We do this HUGE meal, like start around idk 7-8 and finish past midnight, with lots of singing and storytelling. Some families have skits and dressup, really there's so many fun traditions around Passover. I know many people who are less than observant, but still will celebrate the first night of Passover.

After that is probably the High Holy Days, specifically the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashana), and the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). The New Year is also a time for the family to gather, and includes way too much eating.
The Day of Atonement is the most important fast day of the year, when we get a clean slate for our sins for the upcoming year. It generally involves a lot of praying, and once again, some generally non-observant Jews will still take some note of this day. In Israel, there are almost no cars in the streets on this day - you can go walking on highways and stuff. It's pretty neat.

Sukkot, or Tabernacles, is a very fun holiday but afaik more commonly observed in the Orthodox community (an example of 'Bible importance'=/=emotional importance, because this one's in the Bible so technically a Big One). For this holiday we built little huts in the yard, roof them with branches, and eat (and sometimes sleep) in them. Lots of decorating and such, there are even competitions. My family made a paper mache Enterprise and Death Star to hang in our Sukkah :3
Often ignored is Shmini Atseret, which is right on the end of Sukkot, but a Bible holiday in its own right. This one doesn't get much attention, though, usually.

Shavuot is 50 days after Pesach. It's a huge deal among Orthodox, who will stay up all night studying Torah, and it's nice 'cause in recent years in Israel at least they've been putting together classes all night that are open to everybody, and some on more "general" themes, also for non-religious society. So it's becoming more of a big deal, and more social.

Then you've got second-tier, which are Hanukkah and Purim. Purim is celebrated by gifting each other with baskets of food and candy, dressing up in costumes, getting drunk (though that's a bit frowned upon), and reading the book of Esther. It's super fun, lots of parties.

A third-tier holiday which is very popular in Israel is Lag Ba'omer. It comes 33 days after Passover. Its roots are a bit complicated, but it's generally celebrated by BONFIRES EVERYWHERE. It's pretty cool to fly in/out of Israel on that day, because you can just see fires dotting the countryside all over the place. Stinks, though.

It should also be noted: three of our holidays are a week long (Hanukkah, Sukkot/Tabernacles, and Passover). Most holidays involve tons of eating, but we have some fast days to counteract that. Most Jewish holidays tend to commemorate disasters we got saved from.

This is super-super short. If you have any other questions, feel free :)