But how about Shavuot, the "Feast of Weeks?" Shavuot, which means "weeks" in Hebrew, is probably the most important Jewish holiday you've never heard of, commemorating the single most important ...

The holiday – which means "weeks" in Hebrew, and is referred to as the "Feast of Weeks" – celebrates the Jews receiving the Torah (the Jewish bible) from God on Mount Sinai; it is the end of a ...

Shavuot, while not explicitly a day of forgiveness in the same way as Yom Kippur, is a time for reflection, spiritual renewal ...

When you think of Jewish holidays, most non-Jewish people know about Hanukkah, Passover, Yom Kippur maybe. But what about Shavuot?

Shavuot, starting this year at sundown Tuesday, is a festival with three names: Shavuot, which means “the feast of weeks”; Hag HaKatzir, or “harvest holiday”; and Hag HaBikkurim, meaning ...

When is Shavuot? This year, it begins the evening of Thursday, May 25, and lasts until the evening of Saturday, May 27. It always falls on the Hebrew calendar 6 Sivan through 7 Sivan.

Shavuot, however, is not tied to any such rituals, and it seems this is why so many Jews overlook it. Two centuries ago, a British statesman admired the tenacity of the Jews, exiled from the Holy ...

Shavuot is a short holiday – one day in Israel, two in the Diaspora. There is no special mitzvah connected to it. And, at least in theory, it has no fixed date. Shavuot is completely dependent ...

Without Shavuot, in other words, Passover is an incomplete holiday. While commonly known as the holiday that commemorates receiving the Torah more than 3,300 years ago, it’s more than that.

Raphael and Michael, who are surely as angelic as their names suggest, prize two different aspects of the early-summer holiday of Shavuot or Shavuos. The Biblical Feast of Weeks is an agricultural ...

But how about Shavuot, the "Feast of Weeks?" Shavuot, which means "weeks" in Hebrew, is probably the most important Jewish holiday non-Jews have never heard of, ...