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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.
In Exodus 23:16, the holiday of Shavuot is called the "feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labours (Heb. bikkurei maasecha)", testifying to the link between bikkurim and this holiday, at which time summer fruit was beginning to ripen and bikkurim were brought. Leviticus 2:14 describes the omer offering, brought on Passover, as bikkurim ...
Shavuot is the only major Jewish holiday for which no calendar date is specified in the Torah; rather, its date is determined by the omer count. [ 1 ] The Counting of the Omer begins on the second day of Passover (the 16th of Nisan ) for Rabbinic Jews ( Orthodox , Conservative , Reform ), and after the weekly Shabbat during Passover for Karaite ...
The name Shavuot, meaning “weeks,” refers to this seven-week period... In the days of the Temple, the counting marked the seven weeks from the wheat harvest on the spring festival of Passover ...
When the second day of Shavuot falls on Shabbat, the reading is the same as for the eighth day of Passover when it falls on the Sabbath, namely Deuteronomy 14:22–16:17 in most communities. When the second day of Shavuot falls out on a weekday, the individual readings are as follows: [17] Reading 1: Deuteronomy 15:19–23
The Three Pilgrimage Festivals or Three Pilgrim Festivals, sometimes known in English by their Hebrew name 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 ...
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