Best Jewish Holidays

Jews have so many great holidays. Let's rank them! I left off Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest, since it occurs every week and isn't a holiday in the usual sense of the word.
The Top Ten
1 Passover

Aka Pesach. We have a long seder meal (or two), drink wine, eat matzah, kids ask questions. Clean the house, some don't eat chametz (bread for example). In the spring. Celebrates exodus from Egypt.

2 Sukkot

We build sukkahs (huts), live in them, and decorate them. We also shake lulav and etrog. Autumn festival.

3 Hanukkah

You all know this one. We light the menorah, spin dreidels, eat latkes, and get gifts. Also spelled Chanukah.

4 Purim

Dress up in costumes, exchange gifts, give charity. Adults get drunk, have parties. Read megillah scroll with story of Esther.

5 Rosh Hashanah

Jewish New Year. We blow shofars (ram horns), dip apple in honey, and eat a bunch of exotic fruit. (Also considered "the day of judgment," since it occurs a week before Yom Kippur, the day of atonement and traditionally the holiest day of the year.)

6 Lag BaOmer

Bonfires! Plus singing and dancing

7 Shavuot

Celebrates receiving the Torah on Mount Sinai. Eat cheesecake, study Torah, and decorate with flowers

8 Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah

Celebrates yearly reading of Torah, with joyful dancing in the synagogue

9 Tu Bishvat

New Year for trees. Eat all kinds of fruit and plant trees

10 Rosh Chodesh

First day of each month in the Jewish calendar

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