Lag BaOmer

Revealing the Esoteric: The Soul of Torah

May 12, 2020

Lag BaOmer—this year, Tuesday, May 12, 2020—is a festive day on the Jewish calendar, celebrating the anniversary of the passing of the great sage and mystic Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, author of the Zohar. It also commemorates another event. In the weeks between Passover and Shavuot, a plague raged amongst the disciples of the great sage Rabbi Akiva. On Lag BaOmer the dying ceased. Read more about Lag BaOmer

Rosh Hashanah

Begins sunset of  Sunday, September 29, 2019
Ends nightfall of  Tuesday, October 1, 2019 No work is permitted. Rosh Hashanah, literally meaning the “head [of] the year”, is the Rabbinical Jewish New Year.

The Biblical name for this holiday is Yom Teruah, literally “day of shouting or blasting”. It is the first of the Jewish High Holy Days specified by Leviticus 23:23–32 that occurs in the early autumn of the Northern Hemisphere at the Biblical 7th month. Note: The Biblical New Year is in Abiyb/Nissan.  

Yom Kippur

Begins sunset of  Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Ends nightfall of  Wednesday, October 9, 2019 No work is permitted. Yom Kippur, also known as the Day of Atonement, is the holiest day of the year in Judaism. Its central themes are atonement and repentance. Jews traditionally observe this holy day with an approximate 25-hour period of fasting and intensive prayer, often spending most of the day in synagogue services.   

Sukkot

The seven days of Sukkot—celebrated by dwelling in the sukkah, taking the Four Kinds, and rejoicing—is the holiday when we expose ourselves to the elements in covered huts, commemorating G‑d’s sheltering our ancestors as they traveled from Egypt to the Promised Land. The Four Kinds express our unity and our belief in G‑d’s omnipresence. Coming after the solemn High Holidays, it is a time of joy and happiness

Sukkot: October 13-20, 2019

FAST OF TEVET 10 SITEFast of Tevet 10 Begins sunrise of  Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Ends nightfall of  Tuesday, January 7, 2020 Work permitted On Asarah B’Tevet, the 10th day of the Jewish month of Tevet, in the year 3336 from Creation (425 BCE), the armies of the Babylonian emperor Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Jerusalem. Asarah B’Tevet (this year, January 7, 2020) is observed as a day of fasting, mourning and repentance.