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2b.7 Jewish Festivals (Key terms (Chametz Any food containing yeast/…

- - - - New Year's resolutions required - try and live a more Godly life
        
        Symbolic foods like honey - 'a sweet life' aka full of blessings
        
        Shofar blown every day in Shul
        
        100 notes of the Shofar blown to express sorrow for past sin
      - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRp0vw8RBAw
      - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0sKHcdjJPg
    - - After thinking about their sins for the whole month of Elul, on Rosh Hashanah, people think about the relationship with God and others and decide how to make this better in the coming year
      - Book of life is opened by God and the quality of people's lives is written down
        
        See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction...choose life
        (Deut 30:1 & 19) :pen:
      - A chance to come before G_d, acknowledge what they have done wrong and show they are going to do better next year
    - - Divergent views on origin
        
        Talmud - to be treated as the day G_d created heaven and earth
        
        Torah
        1st day of Elul is when Moses goes up Sinai to get the new version of the tablets he smashed.
        40 days later (Yom Kippur) he came back with the new tablets, showing G_d forgave their idolatry.
    - - "And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
        “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month,
        you shall observe a day of solemn rest, a memorial...
        You shall not do any ordinary work,
        and you shall present a food offering to the Lord.” (Lev 23:-25)