Tag: high holidays

Wizarding High Holy Day Headcanons

jewish-harrypotter:

Days off for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and leaving sections of the tables empty for those fasting to be able to chill away from temptation but still with friends in the common social environment. – @racheltheclumsy

Giving the Jewish students the day off on Yom Kippur bc like how the frick are you supposed to function come on (that should apply to every school not just magical ones let’s be honest here) – @weirdest-al

Hermione, however, was not concerned. At Hogwarts she was different, and that was okay. There were times when she felt lost, but never from her culture, from her faith. She fasted for Yom Kippur and feasted on honey  and apples on Rosh Hashanah. – @voldemortgavemethetalk

Tina hates it when she has to be out of town for work on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Partly because she doesn’t like having to work on the High Holy Days, but if she’s honest? It’s mostly because she misses Queenie’s honey cake (and if she’s really honest? It’s because she misses Queenie). – @nifflersgelt

Queenie’s apple strudel recipe is a special one she usually makes just for Rosh Hashanah. That she made it for Jacob shows how special he already was to her even though they’d just met. – @nifflersgelt

Feel free to add your own!

jewish-privilege:

“Then the great horn sounds in earnest one hundred times. The time of transformation is upon you. The world is once again cracking through the shell of its egg to be born. The gate between heaven and earth creaks open. The Book of Life and the Book of Death are opened once again, and your name is written in one of them.

“But you don’t know which one.

“The ten days that follow are fraught with meaning and dread. They are days when it is perfectly clear every second that you live in the midst of a chain of ineluctable consequence, that everything you do, every prayer you utter, every intention you form, every act of compassion you perform, ripples out from the center of your being to the end of time. Anger and its terrible cost lie naked before you. Grievance gives way to forgiveness. At the same time, you become aware that you also stand at the end of a long chain of consequences. Many things are beyond your control. They are part of a process that was set in motion long ago. You find the idea of this unbearable.”

– This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation by Alan Lew