The festival calendars in the Torah list 3 pilgrimage festivals when all Jews were to present themselves at the Temple (or at the portable sanctuary in the desert). These are Pesach (Passover), a harvest festival that also celebrates the exodus from Egypt, Shavuot (Pentecost or the Feast of Weeks), a harvest festival that also celebrates the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai, and Succot (the Feast of Booths) another harvest festival, plus an extra day of assembly attached to Succot. These festivals continue to frame the year, although the requirement to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem ended with the destruction of the Temple by the Romans in the year 70. The festival calendars also list Rosh Hashannah (the New Year) and Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) in the fall; these bracket a peneten