Evening

The evening ( Middle High German: Open < Old High German: aband - actually: the rear or later part of the day, probably related to the anus; Hebrew and Aramaic ערב Erev Aruvta; Latin Vesper ) is the posterior part of the day between afternoon and midnight. Obsolete is also the direction of the sunset, the west, called the evening (see: West, Occident ).

Originally designated the evening the last quarter of the bright day. In Roman times, both the night and the day was divided into twelve temporal hours, the length of the duration of the light day was adapted during the year. The twelve hours of the day were grouped into four sections: the morning ( mane ), the morning (ad meridiem ), the afternoon ( de Meridie ) and the evening ( suprema ). The evening covered the period from the beginning of the tenth hour until the end of the twelfth hour, the sunset. The Four sections were proclaimed publicly in Rome ushers of the consuls.

In many cases, the " evening " is used metaphorically or literary for the end of a period, an era or epoch. Thus, the closing time referred to today, the rest of the daily working. As twilight period of life of a human is referred to euphemistically in which he is aging and his last years spent in retirement. In addition, the period of time immediately before a historic event as drastic whose eve denoted such as the eve of the Battle of Waterloo or the eve of the October Revolution.

With evening or Jewish Erev is sometimes a whole day designated as the Saturday before the " highest day " of the week in Christianity, Sunday or Christmas Eve the preparation day of the Christmas holidays: the term, it refers to the previous day of a festival or celebration day on which this is prepared and set to the believer contemplative on this.

Judaism

Ma'ariv (Hebrew מעריב ) is the first significant word of the Jewish evening prayer. It is made of Erev, Hebrew ערב for " evening " derived.

The eve of Jewish holidays, Hebrew Erev (Hebrew ערב " evening " ), and Aramaic Aruvta mean " evening ". Especially Erev is common in the sense of Eve in composition with feast days, so Erev Shabbat means the eve of the Sabbath. Colloquially can also mean a Shabbat feast day or previous day.

Erev Shabbat

Main article: Shabbat

On Erev Shabbat, so Fridays till the break of the evening, the God of the Jews blessed and sanctified the Sabbath is prepared in Jewish households. The eve of Shabbat plays an important role in the mood for Shabbat.

Erev Pesach

Main article: Passover

The antiquity of Passover is a busy time which serves as a preparation for the Passover days, of which only the first and last Pessachtag are major holidays in which any servile work is avoided. The Erev Pesach is particularly used to prepare the Seder.