what is a high day in the bible
Shavuot; (Pentecost) Rosh Hashanah (Trumpets)
title: High Sabbaths text: High Sabbaths High Sabbaths, in most Christian and Messianic Jewish usage, are seven annual Biblical festivals and rest days, recorded in the books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy. This is an extension of the term "high day" found in the King James Version at . The seven festivals do not necessarily occur on weekly "Shabbat" (seventh-day Sabbath) and are called by the name "miqra" ("called assembly") in Hebrew (). They are observed by Jews and a minority of Christians. Two of them occur in spring: the first and seventh days of Pesach (Passover), and one, Shavuot; (Pentecost) occurs in summer. Four title: High Holy Days text: and falls on the first and second days of the Jewish month of Tishrei (September/October). The Mishnah, the core work of the Jewish Oral Torah, sets this day aside as the new year for calculating calendar years and sabbatical and jubilee years. Rabbinic literature describes this day as a day of judgment. God is sometimes referred to as the "Ancient of Days." Some descriptions depict God as sitting upon a throne, while books containing the deeds of all humanity are opened before Him. Prayer services are longer than on a regular shabbat or other Jewish holidays, and include (on weekdays) title: High Holy Days text: the day "Yom Hakippurim" (Hebrew, "Day of the Atonement/s"). In the Hebrew calendar, the ninth day of Tishri is known as "Erev Yom Kippur" (Yom Kippur eve). Yom Kippur itself begins around sunset on that day and continues into the next day until nightfall, and therefore lasts about 25 hours. Observant Jews will fast throughout Yom Kippur and many attend synagogue for most of the day. There are five prayer services, one in the evening (sometimes known as "Kol Nidre" from one of the main prayers) and four consecutively on the day. There is a Kabbalistic belief that, though judgment title: High Sabbaths text: view, only those feast sabbaths that coincide with the weekly Sabbath are regarded as High Sabbaths. The ten-day period between the High Sabbaths of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur inclusive is commonly referred to as the High Holy Days. High Sabbaths High Sabbaths, in most Christian and Messianic Jewish usage, are seven annual Biblical festivals and rest days, recorded in the books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy. This is an extension of the term "high day" found in the King James Version at . The seven festivals do not necessarily occur on weekly "Shabbat" (seventh-day Sabbath) and are called by the title: High Holy Days text: between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Shabbat Shuvah has a special Haftarah that begins "Shuvah Yisrael" (come back, oh Israel), hence the name of that Shabbat. Traditionally the rabbi gives a long sermon on that day. It is held that, while judgment on each person is pronounced on Rosh Hashanah, it is not made absolute until Yom Kippur. The Ten Days are therefore an opportunity to mend one's ways in order to alter the judgment in one's favor. Yom Kippur (יום כפור "yom kippūr", "Day of Atonement") is the Jewish festival of the Day of Atonement. The Hebrew Bible calls