# aseret yemei teshuvah (עֲשֶׂרֶת יְמֵי תְּשׁוּבָה)

pronounced: a-SE-ret ye-MEI tshoo-VAH


**The Ten Days of Return — the ten days from Rosh HaShanah through Yom Kippur**

## In Scripture

> “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest to you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.’” Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, “However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
> — Leviticus 23:24-27 (Biblical calendar frame — the later Ten Days of Repentance lie between the first-day memorial and the Day of Atonement on the tenth.)

> Seek Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is near: let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
> — Isaiah 55:6-7 (Same-root call — shuv, ‘return,’ supplies the biblical movement later named teshuvah.)


## How to read this entry

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