Shalosh Regalim
Three Festival Pilgrimage , better known as the Shalosh Regalim are three major festivals of Judaism , during which the Israelites living in the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah were to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem , as their prescribed the Torah. In Jerusalem , they took part in festivities and ritual worship in conjunction with the services of Kohanim ("priests") to the Temple of Jerusalem. These three festivals are:
After the destruction of the Second Temple , the pilgrimage ceased to be an obligation, and no longer stood on a national scale. In the offices synagogue , the passages relating to the Festival are observed read aloud in a Sefer Torah on the bimah ("altar"), and mark the point. During the Jewish holidays in the current Israel , many Jews living in or near Jerusalem make an effort to attend prayer services at the Western Wall , in order to "emulate" the old pilgrimage to the extent of their means.
Sources in the Hebrew Bible
- 23:14-17: Three times a year you a feast in my honor. Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread ; for seven days at the appointed time in the month Abib thou shalt eat unleavened bread , as I `t have given the commandment, for they are in that month you are `out of Egypt , and there `s none shall appear before Me empty.
Thou shalt keep the feast of harvest , the fruits of your labor, what you sow in the field, and the harvest festival at the end of the year when you gather in the field the fruit of your labor.
Three times a year all your males appear before the Lord, the Lord.
- 34:18-23: Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread ; for seven days at the appointed time in the month Abib thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I `t have given the commandment, for they are in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.
19 Every firstborn belongs to me, even all firstborn male in flocks of large and small livestock.
20 You shall redeem with a lamb, the firstborn of the ass and if you do not redeem it, thou shalt break his neck. You redeem all the firstborn of thy son, and it `s none shall appear before Me empty.
You will work six days, and you shall rest on the seventh day thou shalt rest, even in plowing time and harvest.
Thou shalt observe the feast of weeks , the first fruits of the harvest of wheat and the harvest festival at the end of the year.
Three times a year all your males appear before the Lord, the Lord God of Israel.
- Book of Deuteronomy (16:16): Three times a year, every male among you shall appear before the LORD thy God in the place which He chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast weeks, and the feast of tabernacles. We shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed.
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