Questions tagged [high-holidays]

Questions about Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. Not for questions unique to one or the other.

The High Holidays, or Yamin Nora'im (ימים נוראים), are Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, which have many commonalities and share many practices. They form the bookends of the aseres ymei teshuva.

See: rosh-hashanah-new-year yom-kippur aseres-yemei-teshuva

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High holidays in the Torah

If the high holidays are really so momentous and paramount in Judaism, why are they not even mentioned in passing in the Torah until far into Leviticus, in fact, after the mishpatim, pilgrimage holidays and many other precepts?

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asked Apr 24 '18 at 04:04

bernardo