Hanukkah
Festival of Lights
Jewish Holidays & Festivals
Explore Rabbi Sacks' ideas on the key moments of celebration and remembrance in the Jewish calendar.
This piece, shared by Rabbi Sacks in 2019, offers a new perspective on the festival of lights.
Asarah B'Tevet
Fast of Tevet
Tu BiShvat
New Year for Trees
Purim
Festival of Lots
Passover
Pesach
Sefirat HaOmer
Counting of the Omer
Yom HaShoah
Holocaust Remembrance Day
Yom HaZikaron
Israel’s Memorial Day
Yom Ha'atzmaut
Israel Independence Day
Yom Yerushalayim
Jerusalem Day
Shavuot
Feast of Weeks
Bein HaMetzarim
The Three Weeks
Shiva Asar B'Tammuz
Fast of Tammuz
Tisha B’Av
Fast of Av
Rosh Hashanah
The Jewish New Year
Ten Days of Repentance
Asseret Yamei Teshuvah
Yom Kippur
Day of Atonement
Sukkot
Feast of Tabernacles
Shemini Atzeret / Simchat Torah
Rejoicing of the Torah