High Holy Days
Colloquialism for Jewish New Year holiday, 10 Days of Awe, Repentance and Atonement / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see High Holy Days (disambiguation).
See also: Jewish holidays
In Judaism, the High Holy Days, also known as High Holidays or Days of Awe (Yamim Noraim; Hebrew: יָמִים נוֹרָאִים, Yāmīm Nōrāʾīm) consist of:
- strictly, the holidays of Rosh Hashanah ("Jewish New Year") and Yom Kippur ("Day of Atonement");
- by extension, the period of ten days including those holidays, known also as the Ten Days of Repentance (Aseret Yemei Teshuvah); or,
- by a further extension, the entire 40-day penitential period in the Jewish year from Rosh Chodesh Elul to Yom Kippur, traditionally taken to represent the forty days Moses spent on Mount Sinai before coming down with the second ("replacement") set of the Tablets of Stone.
The services for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur take on a solemn tone as befits these days. Traditional solemn tunes are used in the prayers.