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 seventh day of Christmas,
My true love sent to me
Seven swans a-swimming.”
—Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 34–36)
“Pilate with his question “What is truth?” is gladly trotted out these days as an advocate of Christ, so as to arouse the suspicion that everything known and knowable is an illusion and to erect the cross upon that gruesome background of the impossibility of knowledge.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever- present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.”
—Muriel Spark (b. 1918)