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question: "What does Chag mean in Hebrew?"
answer: "Festival. Sukkot is a chag. Yom Kippur is not greeted as one."
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# Chag

חג — Chag

Festival. Sukkot is a chag. Yom Kippur is not greeted as one.

Holiday traffic stories say “erev chag” — the eve, when the shops empty and the roads fill.