{"id":13369,"date":"2019-11-21T13:46:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T11:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2019\/11\/21\/why-isnt-sigd-celebrated-by-all-jews"},"modified":"2019-11-21T16:37:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T14:37:29","slug":"why-isnt-sigd-celebrated-by-all-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2019\/11\/21\/why-isnt-sigd-celebrated-by-all-jews\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Isn&#8217;t Sigd Celebrated by All Jews?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"_3tLhF\">\n<div class=\"_3Hx4x vem7e\">\n<div class=\"_36ib3\">\n<div class=\"_1Pp3a\">\n<div class=\"_3bJ2H CHExY\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sigd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sigd<\/a> is an Ethiopian-Jewish holiday celebrated 50 days after <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yom_Kippur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yom Kippur<\/a>. It is a day of fasting, prayer, and communal introspection. Its origins are admittedly somewhat hazy, but the Beta Israel community (Ethiopian Jews) trace Sigd back to the Bible itself.\u00a0<\/em><em>This begs the question: If Sigd is a holiday with such ancient and well-sourced origins, why is it practiced only by the Beta Israel community?\u00a0<\/em><em>An opinion article from the Jerusalem Post titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Opinion\/Is-world-Jewry-ready-for-another-holiday-381276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Is World Jewry ready for Another Holiday?&#8217;<\/a> explores this question and many others. A worthwhile and informative read.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_3bJ2H CHExY\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1l8RX _1ByhS\" dir=\"ltr\">Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@pregadio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Pregadio<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/s\/photos\/israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unsplash<\/a><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigd is an Ethiopian-Jewish holiday celebrated 50 days after Yom Kippur. It is a day of fasting, prayer, and communal introspection. Its origins are admittedly somewhat hazy, but the Beta Israel community (Ethiopian Jews) trace Sigd back to the Bible itself.\u00a0This begs the question: If Sigd is a holiday with such ancient and well-sourced origins, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":13370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3754],"tags":[3756,3755],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13369\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=13369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13369\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13370\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=13369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=13369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=13369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}