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.

Shavuot (שָׁבוּעוֹת in Hebrew, also pronounced Shavuos) is a two-day Jewish holiday (June 1-3, 2025) that commemorates the date when G‑d gave the Torah to the Jewish people at Mount Sinai over 3,000 years ago.

Shavuot is a springtime holiday that celebrates the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai. Alongside Passover and Sukkot, it is one of the three pilgrimage festivals , marked in ancient times by the gathering of the entire Israelite people at the Temple in Jerusalem.

Jul 3, 2024 · Shavuot, the Jewish Pentecost, is a holiday that commemorates the single most important event in Israel’s history: the giving of the Torah (the first five books in the Hebrew Bible) to Moses at Mount Sinai.

Shavuot means “weeks,” and it refers to the Biblical Holiday celebrated on Sivan 6 (and 7 in the Diaspora) on the anniversary of the giving of the Torah at Sinai.

Here are 11 things you should know about Shavuot: 1. The festival has five names. Shavuot —The word Shavuot means “weeks.” It marks the completion of the seven-week Omer counting period between Passover and Shavuot. Yom HaBikkurim —“The day of First Fruits.”

Jan 9, 2025 · Shavuot, second of the three Pilgrim Festivals of the Jewish religious calendar. It was originally an agricultural festival, marking the beginning of the wheat harvest. Celebration of Shavuot occurs on the 50th day, or seven weeks, after the sheaf offering of the harvest celebrated during Passover.

Shavuot – or “The Feast of Weeks” – is one of the three Biblical pilgrimage festivals, along with Passover and Sukkot. It is celebrated on the 6th of Sivan in Israel, and the 6th and 7th of Sivan in the diaspora.

Two distinct biblical Shavuot rituals were given symbolic expression. The first ritual provided for the bringing of the wave loaves of bread (“ lechem tenufah “) which were to be baked from the new crop of wheat (Leviticus 23: 17). Thus one expressed his or …

Shavuot is a festival with a variety of names, each one representing different aspects of the festival. It is the Hag HaKatzir (harvest festival), Hag HaShavuot (festival of weeks) and Hag Habikkurim (festival of first fruits). The Torah describes the biblical festival in all three ways.