Days of Remembrance
- Tisha B'Av
(Day of mourning for the destruction of both the First and Second Temple in Jerusalem and other events.)
- Yom Kippur, Shemini Atzeret, Final day of Pesach, Shavuot
(the four days on which Yizkor is recited)
- Tenth of Tevet
(a fast day on which it has become a custom for some to say Kaddish for those whose yahrzeits are unknown or died in the Holocaust)
- Yom HaShoah
(national day of remembrance in Israel (and by many Jews worldwide) for those murdered in the Holocaust as well as righteous gentiles)
- Yom Hazikaron
(national day of remembrance to those who died in service of Israel or killed in terrorist attacks)
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Famous quotes containing the words days of, days and/or remembrance:
“The third day of Christmas,
My true love sent to me
Three French hens,”
—Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 8–10)
“When you are rich, always remember the days when you were poor, so that there won’t be poor times when you have to recall the days when you were rich.”
—Chinese proverb.
“I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personal relations. But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such disparaging words. For persons are love’s world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)