Special festivals and days through out the year mark the Jewish calendar. These festivals are known as Yom Tovim. On many of these occasions the Jewish community are governed by certain rules that are found in the Torah. Some of these certain festivals are acknowledged and celebrated more in the Jewish Synagogue. These festivals are the Pesach, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Hanukah and the Shabbat.
One festival is the celebrated all year round is the Shabbat. The Jewish Sabbath or Shabbat as it is said in Hebrew is on a Saturday, the 7th day of the week. It commemorates that after creating the world, God refrained from work on the 7th day. The word, Shabbat means in Hebrew to cease, end or rest, and that is exactly what Jews do. They refrain from work. There are 39 categories of banned activities, some of which include baking, sewing, slaughtering, watching TV, driving the car, using a hammer and creating a fire.
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