Talk:High Holy Days
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- Shouldn't this be moved to High Holy Days? I'm going to move it in a few days if no one objects.--M@rēino 23:21, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Meaning of term
I always understood that the "High Holy Days" were either the ten days from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur (the Aseret Yeme ha-Teshuvah) or simply Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur themselves. ("Services for the High Holy Days" generally means the RH/YK mahzor). I have never heard of it including Elul, though that month is a kind of run-up to them. Can someone clarify? --Sir Myles na Gopaleen (the da) 10:31, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
- I kind of agree and kind of disagree. I think that this article is inaccurate in stating that the Days of Awe are the same thing as the High Holy Days. I've always heard of the Days of Awe starting on Rosh Hodesh Elul and continuing through Hoshanah Rabba (I've also heard through Yom Kippur). At the same time, I've heard the term High Holy Days used exclusively to refer to the time between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Perhaps there should be a second Days of Awe article referring to practices such as blowing the shofar every morning and reciting the 27th psalm starting at Rosh Hodesh Elul. --דניאל ~ Danielrocks123 talk contribs Count 20:48, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
- I've always thought High Holy Days means Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, while Yamim Noraim means the ten-day period. I wouldn't know what to call Elul. --Eliyak T·C 23:34, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
- There already is an article on Aseret Yeme Ha-teshuvah; and Days of Awe generally has this meaning (the ten days from RH to YK); I don't think we want three articles. I increasingly think that "High Holy Days" means RH and YK only, as "Holy Days" (not high) is a translation of "Yom Tov". Perhaps we can say something like "High Holy Days means the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The term is sometimes used loosely to refer to the whole period of ten days, more properly called Aseret Yeme ha-Teshuvah. Another term in use is Yamim Noraim (Days of Awe): this can also have a more extended sense of the whole period from the beginning of Elul to Yom Kippur, or even to Hoshanah Rabba, which constitutes the period of the Jewish calendar devoted to repentance." --Sir Myles na Gopaleen (the da) 09:36, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
- I've always thought High Holy Days means Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, while Yamim Noraim means the ten-day period. I wouldn't know what to call Elul. --Eliyak T·C 23:34, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
