Shavuot

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Shavuot

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Holiday of:

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Judaism and Jews

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Hebrew: שבועות or חג שבעות

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"Festival of Weeks"

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Begins:

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6th day of Sivan

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7th (in Israel 6th) day of 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.

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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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Related to:

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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.

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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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Judaism: Judaism is the religious culture of the Jewish people. It is one of the first recorded monotheistic faiths and one of the oldest religious traditions still practiced today. The tenets and history of Judaism are the major part of the foundation of other Abrahamic religions, including Christianity and...

Jew: The word Jew (Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity; and often a combination of these attributes....

Three Pilgrim Festivals: The Three Pilgrim Festivals, known as the Shalosh Regalim in Hebrew, are three major festivals in Judaism when the Children of Israel living in ancient Israel and Judea, and later the Jews, were commanded by the Torah to make an actual physical "pilgrimage" to Jerusalem and participate in the festiv...

Shavuot related Images and Photos (experimental)

Praying at the Western Wall on Shavuot Jerusalem Israel