This short one-day holiday in Israel – two days in the Diaspora - is laden with many layers of history, meaning and influence. The holiday as recorded for us in the scripture of the Torah itself is ...
When you think of Jewish holidays, a few may come to mind. Hanukkah, Passover, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, maybe. But what about Shavuot? The holiday – which means "weeks" in Hebrew, and is referred ...
As Shavuot approaches, our thoughts turn not only to the giving of the Torah and the Ten Commandments but also to the pressing moral questions of our time. “Did you know that in the past 600 days ...
Spring is in the air, and that means it’s Shavuot time. On June 5 and 6 we will celebrate the giving of the Torah, the Bible, at Mount Sinai. After hundreds of years under the Pharaoh’s tyrannical ...
Shavuot is taking place this week. Marking the spring harvest and commemorating the day God gave the Torah to Moses, Shavuot is a holiday sometimes forgotten or diminished by secular Jews. Today, ...
Shavuot is a key date in the Jewish calendar when when does it fall in 2018 and what is the significance of the festival? SHAVUOT is one of the Shalosh Regalim, the three Biblical pilgrimage festivals ...
FARGO — When Rabbi Yonah and Esti Grossman celebrate Shavuot with their family next week, they’ll reunite with a moment some 3,332 years ago, when several million Jews gathered near Mount Sinai and ...
Disclaimer: Shavuot times for Israel were taken from MyZmanim. Shavuot times here refer to when the holiday ends, meaning Sunday night for Israel and Monday night for the US. Candle lighting: 8:04 p.m ...
Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...
Next Thursday evening 25th May is Erev Shavuot. The holiday celebrates the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai as well as the grain harvest for the summer. In biblical times, Shavuot was one of three ...
SHAVUOT is one of the Shalosh Regalim, the three Biblical pilgrimage festivals in Jewish culture and a key event in the Judaic calendar. In English it is known as the Feast of Weeks and has a double ...