On Sigd, Ethiopian Jews pray to God and plead for a return to Zion, the land of the Torah, and specifically Jerusalem. The community engages in introspection and reflection – in addition to the individual self-examination of Yom Kippur, this reflects and focuses on joint communal behavior.

There are no written sources about the origins of Ethiopian Jews and the historical time they came to Ethiopia. For the most part, history has been preserved orally and has been passed down from generation to generation. The journey of Ethiopian Jews through

Sudan is one of the historical, important, and special journeys of the Jewish people in general and of the Ethiopian community in particular. It is intertwined with longings for the Land of Zion, an aspiration to lize an old dream of immigrating to Jerusalem, to build and understand it, and to unite with the Jewish people in our country. Most Ethiopian Jews immigrated to Israel in two major operations.