Editing Talk:Jewish holidays (section)

== Yom Ha-Aliyah (and other odds and ends) ==

{{ping|Debresser}} Of course it was unsourced; I said as much. Part of the issue is that there just is not much evidence for a religious component to it right now. That makes its inclusion here a little dicey, and of course finding sources to prove a non-event is always a challenge. At the same time, the date ''does'' have religious significance, and that gives some justification to its inclusion. So what if I propose the following: Add it back, tag it as "citation needed", and see if that stimulates someone who knows more about it than we do to add a reference. (I think we've been pretty good about keeping this article sourced, but I'm willing to do this over a short stretch—maybe 2–4 weeks—to see if we can get some help.)
:At the same time, I think I'll see if I can rescue or replace some of the sources outlined just above. 
:I hope you enjoyed ''yom tov.'' Shabbat Shalom. [[User:StevenJ81|StevenJ81]] ([[User talk:StevenJ81|talk]]) 14:08, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
:: Okay. No problems here.
:: I did, thank you. How was your yom tov? Apart from being twice as long as mine, I mean. :) [[User:Debresser|Debresser]] ([[User talk:Debresser|talk]]) 14:29, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
::: I read Megillat Rut twice, and Yetziv Pitgam (hard!) twice. (Youth minyan wasn't adequately prepared. Sigh.) (I guess Yetziv Pitgam disappears in Israel, doesn't it?) I read both the megillah and the haftarah out of a Tanach that my wife and I donated to the shul on the occasion of the birth of my son 25 years ago—and the second day of Yom Tov was the 25th anniversary of his Brit Milah, which was the last time I actually read that haftarah in shul. So that was pretty cool. [[User:StevenJ81|StevenJ81]] ([[User talk:StevenJ81|talk]]) 14:49, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
:::: A festival loaden with symbolism. :) I never heard of Yetziv Pitgam, and since I lived outside Israel too for many years, that probably means it is not Chabad custom to read it. [[User:Debresser|Debresser]] ([[User talk:Debresser|talk]]) 16:13, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
::::: It may well not be a Chabad custom. See [[Yetziv Pisgam]] and [http://www.yutorah.com/lectures/lecture.cfm/836261/davida-kollmar/the-minhag-of-reciting-yetziv-pitgam/ this article at YU Torah]. Just by happenstance, because I wasn't looking for it, the young woman who wrote the YU Torah piece (or delivered it as a talk, I'm not sure) is from my hometown and a family friend. She's a dead brilliant Torah scholar. The piyyut is in Aramaic, and is quite difficult. [[User:StevenJ81|StevenJ81]] ([[User talk:StevenJ81|talk]]) 17:22, 2 June 2017 (UTC)