Today is another holiday. This one is really a festival. One we get to celebrate without being in synagogue all day. But by the end of next week, I’ll have taken off a total of 6 whole days (Yom Kipur was on a Saturday) and three half days for the Jewish Holidays in September- plus the secular Labor Day. Recognizing that there also were 9 weekend days, you can see that means only 12 working days this whole month .