Holidays

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Explore 380 Jewish texts related to the theme of Holidays, drawn from Midrash, Kabbalah, Apocrypha, and classical Jewish literature.

Crown of Torah

Apocrypha Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha

The Book of Jubilees, also sometimes called Lesser Genesis, is considered apocryphal by many Jews and Protestants, but canonical in Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Christianity. Ap...

Blood on the Nile and Passover

Apocrypha Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha

The Book of Jubilees, an ancient Jewish text, speaks directly to that feeling, especially when it comes to sacred obligations. It pulls no punches: "That man who is clean and close...

The Sacred Obligation of Passover

Apocrypha Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha

The Book of Jubilees, a fascinating text from around the 2nd century BCE, gives us a pretty strong clue. It’s considered apocryphal, meaning it’s not included in the standard Jewis...

Borders of the Promise and Passover

Apocrypha Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha

Not just any Passover, but the Passover as envisioned in the Book of Jubilees. The Book of Jubilees, for those unfamiliar, is an ancient Jewish text that retells the stories of Gen...

Passover: Levites at the Gate

Apocrypha Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha

It's considered apocryphal by some, pseudepigraphal by others (meaning, falsely attributed to a biblical figure), but no matter what you call it, it's a fascinating window into a w...

Moses at the Temple and Passover

Apocrypha Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha

The Book of Jubilees, for those of you who aren’t familiar, is an ancient Jewish text. Think of it as a retelling – and slight expansion – of the Book of Genesis and the first part...

Queen Sabbath

Apocrypha Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha

We’re not just talking about a nice nap after a good meal. We're diving deep into a vision of Sabbath so profound, so all-encompassing, that it could be, well... deadly serious. Le...

Giving of the Torah

Apocrypha Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha

This guy, he was living a life of devotion, even in exile in Nineveh. And as we pick up the story in the Book of Tobit, chapter two, things are about to get… well, complicated. It’...

Bagris and the Origins of the World

Apocrypha Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha

But that lifeline comes with a catch – a compromise of everything you hold sacred. That’s the agonizing dilemma faced by the Jews in Megillat Antiochus, a scroll recounting the eve...