Jewish Feasts, Festivals, and Holidays

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  1. 2. requires that God’s people build booths and live in them for seven days remembering God’s provisions for his people in the wilderness
  2. 6. Celebrates the deliverance of God’s people from Egypt. Its primary symbol is the lamb
  3. 8. The story read during Shavout to remind the people to care for those less fortunate
  4. 9. Hebrew name for Feast of Weeks
  5. 11. The Jewish calendar is based on the cycles of the ____
  6. 13. Jewish people boo, hiss, and make fun of him whenever his name is mentioned in the story of Esther
  7. 15. Ingredient that represents sin during the Feast of Unleavened Bread
  8. 16. Hebrew name for Passover
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  1. 1. celebrates the wheat harvest with thankfulness and joy and reminds the people to consider those less fortunate
  2. 3. Feast of ____ Bread;Lasts for 7 days. Removing in advance all yeast from their homes
  3. 4. calls God’s people to renewal and signals the beginning of a 10-day period of waiting for the Day of Atonement
  4. 5. Where the Jewish people were require to travel in the three pilgrim festivals
  5. 6. celebrates God’s protection of his people during their exile in Persia while Esther was queen
  6. 7. Hebrew name for Feast of Tabernacles
  7. 10. The Day of Atonement; The most solemn day of repentance for Jewish people. In Bible times, this day ended with the high priest placing all of Israel’s sins upon the head of a scapegoat
  8. 12. celebrates religious freedom and the rededication of God’s temple
  9. 14. Feats of _____; celebrates the spring barley harvest