The Ethiopian Sigd festival falls on 29th of the Hebrew month of Cheshvan, and is a festival unique to the Beta Israel community. The holiday symbolizes the handing down of the Torah at Mount Sinai. The word itself is Amharic for prostration and the root letters s-g-d are the same as in Mesgid, one of two Ethiopian Jewish terms for synagogue, or Temple: a clear indication of its association with Jerusalem and its centrality in Jewish life and ritual.