High Holidays
Proper noun
Meaning
the High Holidays
(Judaism) Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, collectively.
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During the High Holidays, Hanukkah and Passover, Jewish Family Service volunteers do buy and deliver food to those who will be alone for the holidays, and that works out well.
The very name of that service teaches us the essence of preparation for the High Holidays: The service is called “” which literally means “
The study was enough to scare Rabbi Joshua Heller, whose Conservative synagogue, Congregation B’nai Torah, outside Atlanta, usually sees 3,000 attendees over the High Holidays.