jewish holy day

1. A religious holiday for Jews (synset 115209590)
   is a type of: holy day, religious holiday - a day specified for religious observance
   subtypes:

   • feast of booths, feast of tabernacles, succos, succoth, sukkoth, tabernacles - a major Jewish festival beginning on the eve of the 15th of Tishri and commemorating the shelter of the Israelites during their 40 years in the wilderness
   • rosh chodesh, rosh hodesh - (Judaism) the beginning of each month in the Jewish calendar; marked by a special liturgy
   • high holiday, high holy day - Jewish holy days observed with particular solemnity
   • purim - (Judaism) a Jewish holy day commemorating their deliverance from massacre by Haman
   • feast of weeks, pentecost, shabuoth, shavous, shavuot, shavuoth - (Judaism) Jewish holy day celebrated on the sixth of Sivan to celebrate Moses receiving the Ten Commandments
   • rejoicing in the law, rejoicing of the law, rejoicing over the law, shimchath torah, simchas torah, simchat torah, simhat torah, simhath torah - (Judaism) a Jewish holy day celebrated on the 22nd or 23rd of Tishri to celebrate the completion of the annual cycle of readings of the Torah
   • fast of ab, fast of av, ninth of ab, ninth of av, tisha b'ab, tisha b'av, tishah b'ab, tishah b'av - (Judaism) a major fast day on the Jewish calendar commemorating the destruction of the temples in Jerusalem
   • channukah, channukkah, chanukah, chanukkah, feast of dedication, feast of lights, feast of the dedication, festival of lights, hannukah, hanukah, hanukkah - (Judaism) an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem in 165 BC
   • lag b'omer - (Judaism) Jewish holy day; the 33rd day after the 2nd day of Passover; the 18th day of Iyar

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