Reminder: #School is CLOSED today in observance of #Sigd.
You are invited to join the Outdoors Club for a student-led hike with a Torah reading at the summit. ALL #students are welcome!
Wishing you a meaningful #chag!
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Families identifying as Christian observe a variety of different #holidays in this #season, but all of the holidays have their dates calculated based on Yom Christmas.
This may be why Christians tend to say “Happy Holidays” even when context makes it clear that they only mean Yom Christmas and not normal holidays like #Sigd, #Chanukkah, or #Kwanzaa.
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Black and Jewish shared a post on Instagram: "Today is SIGD, an ancient Ethiopian Jewish holiday. In Israel, thousands came to Armon Hanatziv, a mountain overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem to pray, dance, and celebrate Ethiopian Jewish culture. 🇪🇹✡️ #EthiopianJews #BetaIsrael #Sigd @jewishunpacked @that_semite 🙌🏾". Follow their account to see 903 posts.
Neighborhood Sigd party, celebrated by the Ethiopian Jews in Israel.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigd
#sigd #Ethiopian #november
All of our Jewish Cat Calendars include #Sigd!
Calendar as used by one of our offspring.
(The cats are so big, they did not fit in the picture!)
https://www.benyehudapress.com/books/jewish-cat-calendar-5783-2022-2023/
Happy Sigd!!
Book rec: From Sinai to Ethiopia is one of the few books on Ethiopian Jewish topics written *by* an Ethiopian Jewish author, and it's FREE on Sefaria -
From Sinai to Ethiopia: The Halachic and Conceptual World of Ethiopian Jewry is a 21st-century work exploring the history and customs of the Beta Israel community - customs maintained over thousands of years in Ethiopia while isolated from the rabbinic tradition that guides most of modern-day Jewish observance. In an extensive section titled Shulhan ha-Orit, author Rabbi Sharon Shalom codifies the ancient practices of the Ethiopian Jewish community of his origin and offers suggestions for integrating Beta Israel traditions with full participation in the greater Jewish community. First published in Hebrew in 2012, the book was published in English as part of a six-book series on Ethiopian Jewry. Read the text of From Sinai to Ethiopia online with commentaries and connections.
it's almost ምህላ #sigd!
CW: mentions of food, fasting, and anti-black racism
this year sigd sundown tuesday 22 november – sundown wednesday 23 november
sigd is a beta israel (ethiopian jewish) holiday, 50 days after yom kippur. it's a time of communal self-examination and collectively recommitting ourselves to torah, mirroring the individual self-examination of yom kippur and the 50 day distance between pesach and shavuot
while this is a beta israel holiday, ALL jews are explicitly invited and encouraged by beta israel qessotch (religious leaders) and rabbis to observe. the beta israel position is that sigd was a holiday celebrated by all jewry in ancient jerusalem, regrettably forgotten by us outside the beta israel community; but fortunately preserved by them for our collective benefit
just as the beta israel community has adopted many customs from rabbinic judaism such as celebrating hanukah and laying teffilin, those of us in non- beta israel jewish communities are implored to make this a two-way street of cultural exchange and mutual respect, preserving and honoring the beta israel contribution to wider jewish life and practice. read more about that here:
https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Is-world-Jewry-ready-for-another-holiday-381276
sigd customs include wearing white; a half-day fast beginning at sunrise; ascending a mountain to ritually commemorate receiving the torah at mount sinai; reading psalms and liturgy on the mountain; and descending the mountain to break fast at midday with dabo (an ethiopian crumbly bread), dancing, and revelry
(reminder that you are obligated to NOT fast if it would cause you physical or psychological harm! there are alternatives to food-and-water fasts, such as caffeine fasts and technology fasts)
@opensiddur have an archive of prayers, prayer-poems, and songs for the yontif (holiday):
https://aleph.land/@opensiddur/109380513763133305
the word ምህላ (sigd, or סיגד) means "prostration" or "supplication" in ግዕዝ (ge'ez an ancient ethiopian liturgical language) and in imperial aramaic (סְגֵד)
some of the central themes of sigd are the rebuilding of the temple and an end to exile. we'd be remiss not to mention the racism and violence beta israel jews — and those of their descendants who were coerced into converting to christianity, pejoratively called falash mura — face both when trying to immigrate to israel, and after they arrive there.
no borders!
no nations!
መልካም የስግድ በዓል!
חג סיגד שׂמח!
happy sigd!
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