Shavuot
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- Holiday.celebrations
- Festive meals. All-night Torah study. Recital of Akdamut liturgical poem in Ashkenazic synagogues. Reading of the Book of Ruth. Eating of dairy products. Decoration of homes and synagogues with greenery (Orach Chayim, 494).
- Holiday.significance
- One of the Three Pilgrimage Festivals. Commemorates the giving of the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai by God to Moses and to the Israelites at Mount Sinai, 49 days (seven weeks) after the Exodus from ancient Egypt. Commemorates the wheat harvesting in the Land of Israel. Culmination of the 49 days of the Counting of the Omer.
- Holiday.relatedto
- Passover, which precedes Shavuot
- Holiday.image
- Moritz Daniel Oppenheim - Shavuot (Pentecost) (Das Wochen- oder Pfingst-Fest) - Google Art Project.jpg
- Holiday.caption
- Shavuot by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
- Holiday.holiday_name
- Shavuоt
- Holiday.official_name
- or ( or )
- Holiday.observedby
- Jews and Samaritans
- Holiday.type
- Jewish and Samaritan
- Holiday.begins
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28 sectionsContents
- Names
- Biblical names
- Later names
- Significance
- Giving of the Torah
- Agricultural
- Ancient observances
- Pilgrimage
- ''Bikkurim''
- ''Shtei Halechem''
- Modern religious observances
- Liturgical poems
- ''Aqdamut''
- ''Azharot''
- ''Yatziv Pitgam''
- Book of Ruth
- Greenery
- All-night Torah study
- Dairy foods
- Observances in secular agricultural communities
- Confirmation ceremonies
- Date
- The Book of Jubilees and the Essenes
- The Enoch Seminar
- Notes
- References
- General sources
- External links
thumb|Coloured papercutting|papercut in mixed technique depicting symbols pertinent to Judaism and nature. The inscription reads: "Yom Chag Ha Shavuot Ha Zeh". In the [[Jewish Museum of Switzerland's collection.]]
' (, from ), or ' (, 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 June 14 on the Gregorian calendar.