What Jewish holiday is it today? WHat were people carrying on the way to temple?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why can’t you google it, instead of demanding Jewish people do labor for you on one of their high holidays?

I wonder if this my coworker who gets weirdly testy about the subject of Judaism and will say things like “that is so insulting to Jews” even though she isn’t even Jewish (her husband is, she did not convert) and is just looking fur something to be aggrieved/superior about.

Ironically, I am Jewish and none of the stuff she think is offensive offends me. Like this question, which was not disrespectful, does not concern a high holy day, and is a totally reasonable thing to ask after seeing what OP saw. It would be like saying “I saw some folks leaving the Catholic Church near my office with smudges on their foreheads, but felt weird asking them directly what this was about— can someone tell me what Catholic holiday this is and what the smudges are?” See, not disrespectful, totally fine.

It could also be one of DCUM’s angry atheists who can’t see a sincere question about religion without dumping all over it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why can’t you google it, instead of demanding Jewish people do labor for you on one of their high holidays?

Not a high holiday.

Acutally, I just learned Sukkot and Simchat Torah are considered High Holidays. I am Jewish and actively involved in my synagogue and learned this last week! We were discussing the dates of something at a board meeting and all of the members were like we can do it "after the high holidays, like October 6th" and our Rabbi was like after the holidays is October 18th! Who knew? So I looked it up and although colloquially we refer to the high holidays as Rosh Hashshanah and Yom Kippur, it does go through Simchat Torah.

And this is why it is absolutely fine that the OP asked the question. I don't feel like I'm doing the "labor" of answering it. If I don't want to answer I don't have to. And look at all of the lovely discourse one wouldn't have with a simple Google.

ok, i'm the PP and being pedantic now, but Sukkot, Shavuot, and Pesach are actually the three Pilgrimages, or Shloshah Regalim in hebrew. So i've never thought about Sukkot as a high holiday, especially since you don't need to buy a ticket to go to Sukkot services typically!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why can’t you google it, instead of demanding Jewish people do labor for you on one of their high holidays?

Not a high holiday.

Acutally, I just learned Sukkot and Simchat Torah are considered High Holidays. I am Jewish and actively involved in my synagogue and learned this last week! We were discussing the dates of something at a board meeting and all of the members were like we can do it "after the high holidays, like October 6th" and our Rabbi was like after the holidays is October 18th! Who knew? So I looked it up and although colloquially we refer to the high holidays as Rosh Hashshanah and Yom Kippur, it does go through Simchat Torah.

And this is why it is absolutely fine that the OP asked the question. I don't feel like I'm doing the "labor" of answering it. If I don't want to answer I don't have to. And look at all of the lovely discourse one wouldn't have with a simple Google.

ok, i'm the PP and being pedantic now, but Sukkot, Shavuot, and Pesach are actually the three Pilgrimages, or Shloshah Regalim in hebrew. So i've never thought about Sukkot as a high holiday, especially since you don't need to buy a ticket to go to Sukkot services typically!

They are not Yamim Noraim, but they are considered high holidays because the judgment made on YK is not registered until Hoshanah Rabbah on the last day of Sukkot.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why can’t you google it, instead of demanding Jewish people do labor for you on one of their high holidays?

Not a high holiday.

Acutally, I just learned Sukkot and Simchat Torah are considered High Holidays. I am Jewish and actively involved in my synagogue and learned this last week! We were discussing the dates of something at a board meeting and all of the members were like we can do it "after the high holidays, like October 6th" and our Rabbi was like after the holidays is October 18th! Who knew? So I looked it up and although colloquially we refer to the high holidays as Rosh Hashshanah and Yom Kippur, it does go through Simchat Torah.

And this is why it is absolutely fine that the OP asked the question. I don't feel like I'm doing the "labor" of answering it. If I don't want to answer I don't have to. And look at all of the lovely discourse one wouldn't have with a simple Google.

ok, i'm the PP and being pedantic now, but Sukkot, Shavuot, and Pesach are actually the three Pilgrimages, or Shloshah Regalim in hebrew. So i've never thought about Sukkot as a high holiday, especially since you don't need to buy a ticket to go to Sukkot services typically!

But your High Holiday ticket will get you into Sukkot services (and weekly Shabbat services too)!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why can’t you google it, instead of demanding Jewish people do labor for you on one of their high holidays?

Oh for the love. OP, it was Sukkot. We were decorating the sukkah. Sukkot is not a high holiday and it’s not a big deal to explain it.

[Anonymous]

Ok, there isn't another Jewish holiday now until Hanukkah, which is December 18 (in the evening) to December 26. It's not a religiously major holiday, though it is a lot of fun.

BTW, Jewish holidays start at sundown, because in Genesis, it says "and there was evening and there was morning, the first day." So evening is the beginning of a day, not midnight, or daybreak.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why can’t you google it, instead of demanding Jewish people do labor for you on one of their high holidays?

I wonder if this my coworker who gets weirdly testy about the subject of Judaism and will say things like “that is so insulting to Jews” even though she isn’t even Jewish (her husband is, she did not convert) and is just looking fur something to be aggrieved/superior about.

Ironically, I am Jewish and none of the stuff she think is offensive offends me. Like this question, which was not disrespectful, does not concern a high holy day, and is a totally reasonable thing to ask after seeing what OP saw. It would be like saying “I saw some folks leaving the Catholic Church near my office with smudges on their foreheads, but felt weird asking them directly what this was about— can someone tell me what Catholic holiday this is and what the smudges are?” See, not disrespectful, totally fine.

Might be the same person from the other thread who insisted our entire identity should be about remembering the Shoah (Holocaust).

[Anonymous]

I love questions!
I think questions and discourse are central to our Jewishness.

PP, thanks for sharing the convo in your synagogue.