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Why are Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur only a week apart from Sukkot & Sichat Torah? How can these holidays be?

  • Why are Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur only a week apart from Sukkot & Sichat Torah? How can these holidays be? next to each other? Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur are very serious and Sukkot & Sichat Torah are connected with getting drunk & happiness?

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    You’re right—they are very different, but only externally. Everything that is experienced on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur through tears is experienced during Sukkot through joy. Sukkot is the culmination of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The observances of Sukkot, therefore, mirror the main themes of the Days of Awe: · Rosh Hashanah: The highlight of the Rosh Hashanah service is the blowing of the Shofar. Traditionally, the procedure of blowing the shofar consists of 100 blasts: Tekia x60, Shevarim x20, and Treuah x20. (1) These sounds are alluded to in the word used to describe the branches that cover the Sukkah: sechach, spelled samech (numerically equivalent to 60), chaf (20), chaf (20). (2) · Yom Kippur: The primary service of Yom Kippur in the Tabernacle (and the Holy Temple) was the incense offering, which produced a cloud of smoke known as the “cloud of incense.” This cloud was the source for the “clouds of glory” that surrounded and protected the Jews in the desert. These clouds are commemorated by the sukkah, which surrounds us. (3) 1. A tekiah is one long blast; shvarim is the set of three short blasts; and teru’ah is the set of nine rapid blasts. 2. See Pri Eitz Chaim, end of Sha’ar HaSukkot; Torat Levi Yitzchak p. 303. 3. Source: Likutei Sichot, vol. 2, p. 425. Similarly, the seven days of Sukkot correspond to the seven days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

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Rosh Hashana is the new year of the Hebrew calendar. Yom Kippur is the day in which god forgave the Israelites for the sin of the golden calf and gave Moses the tablets of the law the second time. Sukkot represents two things, it represents the Israelites living in huts when they left Egypt, but it is also the holiday of harvest, when the temple was built the Jews would go to the temple on Sukkot after the harvest in order to give a portion of their harvest to the temple. In Judaism, the Torah is read on a cyclical basis over a period of a year, Simchat Torah is the end of reading the Torah, after which the cycle begins again. So Rosh hashana is a calendar event. Yom Kippur is related to a specific historical event. Sukkot is related to a natural event (harvest is controlled by nature). and Simchat Torah is related to a tradition. Also, Rosh Hashana, Sukkot and Simchat Torah are happy holidays. Yom Kippur is not a sad holiday. It is a day of retrospection and atonement for one's sins, the fasting has a purifying meaning rather than a mourning purpose. After fasting for Yom Kippur and spending the day looking into the inner self and the bad things you have done, you start the next year pure both spiritually and physically. Yom Kippur has gained a sad and heavier meaning in Israel only due to the Yom Kippur war, when Israel suffered a surprise attack on Yom Kippur and lost many people.

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First of all, there are different kinds of happiness. Rosh hashana is a joyous day, even though it's also a day of judgement - the focus of the day, and the prayers we say, are all about making god our king. We're rejoicing at his coronation. Yom Kippur is a day of awe, as well, but it's a day when god forgives all of our sins, and how awesome is that?! And sukkot and simchat torah are not frivolous joy, they're the happiness of being close to god, of doing his will, doing mitzvot. Feel free to email me to discuss further.

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They are all based on a timeline set up by God and recorded in the Torah.

Mathew

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