Shavuot

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Shavuot

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Holiday of:

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Judaism and Jews

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Judaism - Jew

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Hebrew: שבועות or חג שבעות

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"Festival of Weeks"

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6th day of Sivan

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7th (in Israel 6th) day of Sivan

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Israel - Sivan

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Occasion:One of the Three Pilgrim Festivals. Celebrating the giving of the Ten Commandments by God to the Children of Israel at Mount Sinai 49 days after the Exodus from ancient Egypt. Celebrating the harvest and first fruits in the Land of Israel.

Related Topics:
Three Pilgrim Festivals - Ten Commandments - Children of Israel - Mount Sinai - Exodus - Ancient Egypt - Land of Israel

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Culmination of the 49 days of Counting of the Omer.

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Symbols:Festive meals. Staying up at night (Tikkun leil) to learn Torah or Talmud. Eating of dairy foods at one meal.

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Torah - Talmud - Dairy

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Passover which precedes Shavuot.

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Shavuot (Hebrew שבועות), (" weeks") (pronounced: shah-voo-OH-t) is one of the three Biblical pilgrimage festivals. It is a major Jewish holiday, and is also known as the Feast of Weeks. Greek-speaking Jews gave it the name Pentecost (πεντηκόστη) since it occurs fifty days after Passover. If you don't count Passover, the holiday is 49 days after Passover, which is a jubilee of days. This ends the Counting of the Omer.

Related Topics:
Hebrew - Jewish holiday - Greek - Pentecost - Passover - Jubilee - Counting of the Omer

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Shavuot has many aspects and as a consequence has been called by many names. In the Hebrew Bible it is called the "Feast of Harvest" (Hebrew: חג הקציר, Hag ha-Katsir; Ex. xxiii. 16) and the "Feast of Weeks" (Hebrew: חג שבעות, Hag Shavuot; ib. xxxiv. 22; Deut. xvi. 10), also the "Day of the First-Fruits" (Hebrew יום הבכורים, Yom ha-Bikkurim; Num. xxviii. 26).

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