It marks the culmination of the Omer period. Although Shavuot began as an ancient grain harvest festival, the holiday has been identified since biblical times with the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai. In keeping with the agricultural origins of the holidays, on Shavuot some people decorate their synagogues and homes with flowers and foliage. There is a long-standing custom of staying up all night to learn Torah.
One special feature of Shavuot prayer services is the inclusion of the Book of Ruth, the story of one righteous convert to Judaism. It is customary to eat dairy foods on Shavuot, and a number of theories have developed to explain this practice. Here are some delicious dairy recipes for Shavuot:.
Shavuot begins at sunset on Saturday, June 11 and will end on the evening of Monday, June We use cookies to improve your experience on our site and bring you ads that might interest you. So they brought forward this understanding of Shavuot as being the anniversary of revelation: the anniversary of the moment that God gave the Torah, our Bible or a part of the Hebrew Bible, to the Israelite people on Mount Sinai, basically turning them from this rag-tag group of slaves who had just weeks ago come out of Egypt into a people complete with its own set of texts and ways of being in the world.
Shavuot, actually, probably more than any other holiday on the Jewish calendar, is very difficult for American Jews in the 21st century to wrap their hands around, and one of the reasons is because there are not a lot of the same home-based rituals that we have, for instance, with the Passover seder or lighting the Hanukkah menorah. What—how does my life have meaning? What are the 10 Jewish commandments of sports?
How do we take this tradition that has been going on for thousands of years and make it relevant to us today? It is traditional to read the Book of Ruth, because it is a book about the barley harvest.
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