(n.) A Jewish festival, called also the Feast of Lots, instituted to commemorate the deliverance of the Jews from the machinations of Haman.

Fast of Av Feast of Tabernacles Feast of Weeks Hanukkah High Holy Days New Year Ninth of Av Passover Pentecost Pesach Purim Rosh Hashanah Shabuoth Simhath Torah Sukkoth Yom Kippur asceticism cold purgatorial fires fasting flagellation hair shirt lustration maceration mortification penance penitence penitential act penitential exercise purgation purgatory repentance sackcloth and ashes