Did you know that the holidays, which we now think of as times to get together with family, were celebrated in a very different way in Biblical times?  Holidays, in the Torah, were for resting and for sacrificing animals.

Passover: bulls, seven lambs, flour mixed with oil, and one goat.  Also, you only get to eat matzoh.

Shavuot: two bulls, one ram, seven lambs, flour mixed with oil, and a hairy goat.

Rosh Hashanah: a bull, a ram, seven lambs, flour mixed with oil, and a hairy goat.  You’re also supposed to blow the shofar.

Yom Kippur: a bull, a ram, 7 lambs, flour mixed with oil, and another hairy goat.

Sukkot: bulls, two rams, lambs, flour mixed with oil, and yet another hairy goat.  This repeats for eight days.  You’re also supposed to go on a pilgrimage.

Food for Thought

Would you want to live in the days when holidays were observed with sacrifices?