Shavuot / שבועות The festival of Shavuot (or Shavuos, in Ashkenazi usage; Shabhuʿoth in Classical and Mizrahi Hebrew Hebrew: שבועות, lit. “Weeks”) is a Jewish holiday that occurs on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan (late May or early June). Shavuot commemorates the anniversary of the day God gave the Torah to the entire…
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The Holiday of Shavuot
The Holiday of Shavuot On Shavuot, we celebrate the giving of the Torah and the centuries of commentary, debate, and conversation that followed – and continue to this day. For the last several centuries, the printed book was the best medium we had to record, transmit, and engage with Torah. The Torah introduces the momentous…
The festival of Shavuot
The festival of Shavuot, is called the Festival of the Giving of our Torah. It is also called the Festival of Harvest and the Festival of the First Fruits. Bikkurim — The First Fruits The ancient Land of Israel was predominantly an agricultural country and, therefore, the harvest was a happy time. But no…
Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments: The Inside Story By Naftali Silberberg The Ten Commandments were engraved on two tablets. The five commandments etched on the first tablet deal with man’s relationship with G‑d; the second tablet contains five commandments which concern man’s relationship with his fellow man. Of the 613 biblical commandments, G‑d selected these ten commandments…
SPRING FESTIVALS
OVERVIEW OF THE SPRING FESTIVALS The four spring festivals are Passover (Pesach), Unleavened Bread (Hag HaMatzah), First Fruits (Bikkurim), and the Feast of Weeks (Shavuot), or Pentecost. Passover (Pesach) occurs in the first month of the religious calendar (Aviv, also called Nisan), on the fourteenth day, Leviticus (Vayikra) 23:5. Unleavened Bread (Hag HaMatzah) immediately follows…
Sefirat HaOmer
The 49 days from Passover to Shavout have always been a period of spiritual elevation and self-fulfillment. The Counting of the Omer comes alive in all its mystical poetry in this accessible day-by-day guide. It will change your life and empower you to achieve a state of spiritual fulfillment and emotional refinement in 49 simple…
Pesach
The Feast of Unleavened Bread (Hag HaMatzah) is the fifteenth day of the month of Nisan, which is the day following Passover (Pesach). It is a seven-day festival to the L-rd (Leviticus [Vayikra] 23:6-7; Exodus [Shemot] 12:7-8,14-17). On the fifteenth of Nisan and for the next seven days, G-d forbade the people to have any…
Shabbat HaGadol
Shabbat HaGadol (“Great Shabbat” שבת הגדול) is the Shabbat immediately before Passover. There is a special Haftarah reading on this Shabbat of the book of Malachi. Traditionally a lengthy and expansive sermon is given to the general community in the afternoon. Various reasons are given for the name of this Shabbat: 1) The Midrash Rabbah states: “When they…
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