Pilgrimage Festivals
Pronunciations
| Pilgrimage Festivals | (PIL-grim-ij FEST-ih-vls) | listen |
Definitions
n. The festivals of Shavuot, Pesach, and Sukkot on which ancient Israelites would make pilgrimages to the Temple in Jerusalem with gifts of the first fruit and offerings for God.
Example Sentences
"The pilgrimage festivals created an opportunity for the Jewish community to reaffirm their communal commitment to the covenant with God, strengthen the self-identification of the nation as a religious community, and entrench the sanctity of Jerusalem and the place where the Temple stood in the religious consciousness of the people." (source)
Languages of Origin
- English
Who Uses This
- Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education
Regions
- North America
Dictionaries
- The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
Notes
The Hebrew name is shalosh regalim.
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