High Holy Days - wikipedia High Holy Days For other uses, see High Holy Days ( disambiguation ). Ashkenazi - style shofar. The shofar is used during the High Holy Days. The High Holidays or High Holy Days, in Judaism, more properly known as the Yamim Noraim ( Hebrew : ימים נוראים ‎ `` Days of Awe '' ), may mean : 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. Contents 1 Etymology 2 The days preceding Rosh Hashanah ( Jewish new year ) 3 Rosh Hashanah 4 The Ten Days of Repentance 5 Yom Kippur 6 Hoshana Rabbah 7 High Holiday seats 8 See also 9 References 10 External links Etymology The term High Holy Days most probably derives from the popular English phrase, `` high days and holydays ''. The Hebrew equivalent, `` Yamim Noraim '' ( Hebrew : ימים נוראים ‎ ), is neither Biblical nor Talmudic. Professor Ismar Elbogen, author of `` Jewish Liturgy in its Historical Development '', avers that it was a medieval usage, reflecting a change in the mood of Rosh Hashanah from a predominantly joyous celebration to a more subdued day that was a response to a period of persecution. Many prefer the term High Holy Days over High Holidays because the former emphasizes the personal, reflective, introspective aspects of this period. By contrast, Holidays suggests a time of communal celebrations of events in the history of the Jewish people. The Days preceding Rosh Hashanah ( Jewish New Year ) Main article : Elul The Hebrew month preceding Rosh Hashanah, Elul, is designated as a month of introspection and repentance. In preparation for the Jewish New Year, special prayers are recited. Psalms 27 is added at the end of morning and evening prayers, and the shofar ( ram 's horn ) is blown at the end of morning services on weekdays ( except for the eve of Rosh Hashanah itself ). Among Sephardi Jews, Selichot are recited at dawn on weekdays throughout the month. Also, many complete the entire Book of Psalms twice during the month. It is customary to increase the giving of charity ( Tzedakah ) and to ask forgiveness from people one may have wronged. At midnight on the Saturday night before Rosh Hashanah, Ashkenazi Jews begin reciting selichot. On the following days, however, they generally recite the selichot before the regular morning prayers. On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, extra prayers are recited and many fast until noon. Rosh Hashanah Main article : Rosh Hashanah Rosh Hashanah ( Hebrew : ראש השנה ‎ `` Beginning of the Year '' ) is the Jewish New Year, 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 ) the blowing of the shofar. On the afternoon of the first ( or the second, if the first was Saturday ) day, the ritual tashlikh is performed, in which sins are `` cast '' into open water, such as a river, sea, or lake. The ten Days of repentance Main article : Ten Days of Repentance The `` ten days of repentance '' or `` the days of awe '' include Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and the days in between, during which time Jews should meditate on the subject of the holidays and ask for forgiveness from anyone they have wronged. They include the Fast of Gedaliah, on the third day of Tishri, and Shabbat Shuvah, which is the Shabbat 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 Main article : Yom Kippur Yom Kippur ( יום כפור yom kippūr, `` Day of Atonement '' ) is the Jewish festival of the Day of Atonement. The Hebrew Bible calls 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. Hoshana Rabbah Main article : Hoshana Rabbah There is a Kabbalistic belief that, though judgment is made absolute on Yom Kippur, it is not registered until the seventh day of Sukkot, known as Hoshana Rabbah. The service for this day therefore contains some reminiscences of those for the High Holy Days, and it is treated as a last opportunity to repent of sins that may have been missed on Yom Kippur. Jews take bouquets of willow branches that represent their sins and they bash them on the floor while saying a special prayer to God to forgive them for the sins that may have been missed on Yom Kippur. High holiday seats Generally, throughout most of the year, Jewish worship services are open to all, regardless of affiliation, and membership or payment of any fee is not a requirement in order to attend. However, the High Holy Days are usually peak attendance days for synagogues and temples, often filling or over-filling synagogues. For this reason many synagogues issue tickets for attendance and may charge for them : practice varies on whether paid - up synagogue members must also buy these or whether it is included in the subscription. Synagogues never pass a collection plate during services as some churches do, as Jews are forbidden to touch money on the Sabbath or other holidays such as Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Among synagogues in the United States, donations are often sought during the Kol Nidre service, called the `` Kol Nidre Appeal, '' often via a pledge card, where the amount of the donation is represented by a paper tab which can be bent down in the amount of donation desired. Rabbis and other temple representatives say that holiday ticket sales represent a significant source of revenue. See also Jewish holidays Shofar blowing References Jump up ^ `` High Holydays - Ask the Rabbi ''. Retrieved 7 October 2018. ^ Jump up to : `` The High Holidays ''. Retrieved 7 October 2018. Jump up ^ Sometimes spelled Shabbat Shuva, or referred to as Shabbat Teshuvah ( the Sabbath of repentance ), much as the Shabbat in the middle of Passover or Sukkot is called Shabbat Chol HaMoed. Jump up ^ The other Shabbat for a long sermon is Shabbat HaGadol. ^ Jump up to : `` Yom Kippur : History & Overview ''. Retrieved 7 October 2018. Jump up ^ Fishkoff, Sue ( 20 August 2007 ). `` ' Praying without Paying ' is becoming a more popular option among shuls ''. JTA. Archived from the original on 18 September 2016. Retrieved 7 October 2018. Jump up ^ Joselit, Jenna Weissman ( 7 October 2005 ). `` Before We Begin, Let Us All Reach Into Our Pockets ''. The Forward. Retrieved 7 October 2018. Jump up ^ Dunn, Gabrielle ( 21 September 2008 ). `` Jewish high holidays come at a high cost ''. The Boston Globe. Retrieved 7 October 2018. External links Festivals - Jewish Encyclopedia Online books, and library resources in your library and in other libraries about High Holy Days High Holidays Rosh Hashanah Erev Rosh Hashanah Rosh Hashanah greetings Rosh Hashanah seder Shofar Shofar blowing Tashlikh Yom Kippur Atonement Break fast Confession Jonah Kapparot Kittel Kol Nidre Ne'ila Repentance Selichot Ten Martyrs Unetanneh Tokef Ten Days of Repentance Avinu Malkeinu Fast of Gedalia Shabbat Shuvah Jewish and Israeli holidays and observances Jewish holidays and observances Shabbat Shabbat High Holy Days Rosh Hashanah Fast of Gedalia Ten Days of Repentance Yom Kippur Three Pilgrimage Festivals Passover Fast of the Firstborn Pesach Sheni Shavuot Sukkot Hoshana Rabbah Shemini Atzeret Simchat Torah Yom tov sheni shel galuyot Chol HaMoed Isru chag Rosh Chodesh Hanukkah Tenth of Tevet Tu BiShvat Fast of Esther Purim Purim Katan Counting of the Omer Lag BaOmer 17th of Tammuz The Three Weeks The Nine Days Tisha B'Av Tu B'Av Rosh Hashanah LaBehema Holidays / memorial days of the State of Israel Yom HaShoah ( Holocaust Remembrance Day ) Yom HaZikaron ( Memorial Day ) Yom HaAtzmaut ( Independence Day ) Yom Yerushalayim ( Jerusalem Day ) Yom HaAliyah ( Aliyah Day ) Ethnic minority holidays Mimouna Seharane Sigd Hebrew calendar months Tishrei Cheshvan Kislev Tevet Shevat Adar and Adar Sheni Nisan Iyar Sivan Tammuz Av Elul Jewish and Israeli holidays 2000 -- 2050 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=High_Holy_Days&oldid=862928679 '' Categories : High Holy Days Hidden categories : Articles containing Hebrew - language text All articles with specifically marked weasel - worded phrases Articles with specifically marked weasel - worded phrases from September 2018 All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from September 2018 Talk Contents About Wikipedia Català Čeština Español Français עברית Polski Português ייִדיש Edit links This page was last edited on 7 October 2018, at 16 : 52 ( UTC ). 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Question: what are the two jewish high holy days
Answer: Rosh Hashanah