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Shavuot (listen ⓘ, from Hebrew: שָׁבוּעוֹת, romanized:Šāvūʿōṯ, lit. 'Weeks'), or Shvues (listen ⓘ, in some Ashkenazi usage), is a Jewish holiday, one of the biblically ordained Three Pilgrimage Festivals. It occurs on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan; in the 21st century, it may fall anywhere between May 15 and ...
The Three Pilgrimage Festivals or Shalosh Regalim (Hebrew: שלוש רגלים, romanized: šāloš rəgālīm, or חַגִּים, ḥaggīm), are three major festivals in Judaism—two in spring; Passover, 49 days later Shavuot (literally 'weeks', or Pentecost, from the Greek); and in autumn Sukkot ('tabernacles', 'tents' or 'booths')—when all Israelites who were able were expected to make ...
Sukkot. Sukkot, [a] also known as the Feast of Tabernacles or Feast of Booths, is a Torah -commanded holiday celebrated for seven days, beginning on the 15th day of the month of Tishrei. It is one of the Three Pilgrimage Festivals on which Israelites were commanded to make a pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem.
In the current era of the fixed Jewish calendar, this puts the date of Shavuot as 6 Sivan. In Israel and in Reform Judaism, it is a one-day holiday; elsewhere, it is a two-day holiday extending through 7 Sivan. [Note 23] According to Rabbinic tradition, codified in the Talmud at Shabbat 87b, the Ten Commandments were given on this day.
Shavuot is a two-day holiday in the Diaspora; in Israel, it lasts only one day. On the first day, which cannot occur on Shabbat, the story of the giving of the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai, Exodus 19:1–20:23, is read. [15] The individual readings are as follows: [16] Reading 1: Exodus 19:1–6 Reading 2:Exodus 19:7–13 Reading 3:Exodus 19 ...
Yom tov for the Three Pilgrimage Festivals (Pesach, Shavuot, and Sukkot) is observed for 1 day in Israel and in Reform and most Reconstructionist communities around the world, and is observed for 2 days in Orthodox and most Conservative communities outside Israel, because of yom tov sheni shel galuyot. In the table, these are referred to as 1 ...
Rosh Hashanah(Hebrew: רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה, Rōʾš hašŠānā, literally 'head of the year') is the New Yearin Judaism. The biblicalname for this holiday is Yom Teruah(יוֹם תְּרוּעָה, Yōm Tərūʿā, lit. 'day of shouting/blasting'). It is the first of the High Holy Days(יָמִים נוֹרָאִים, Yāmīm ...
e. The Hebrew calendar (Hebrew: הַלּוּחַ הָעִבְרִי, romanized: halLūaḥ hāʿĪḇrī), also called the Jewish calendar, is a lunisolar calendar used today for Jewish religious observance and as an official calendar of Israel. It determines the dates of Jewish holidays and other rituals, such as yahrzeits and the schedule of ...