Shavuot, which means "weeks" in Hebrew, is probably the most important Jewish holiday you've never heard of, commemorating the single most important event in Israel's history. Here's what you need ...

But what about Shavuot? 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 ...

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

But what about Shavuot? 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 ...

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 ...

Shavuot in 1948: Harvesting the ... “Jerusalem’s streets over the week-end were thronged by thousands of persons who, ... they found enough for a feast. And in a kibbutz field under a canopy ...

It was Shavuot in the newly declared State of Israel, and the country was at war. What should have been a time of thanksgiving, of harvest, and ancient ritual took place under bombardment.

Shavuot was originally a harvest festival when the first of the crops sprouted, thus the term “firstfruits,” which were brought to the temple. It was observed seven weeks and one day after ...

Shavuot customs include all-night Torah study, listening to the recitation of the Ten Commandments, the reading of the Book of Ruth, eating dairy products and adorning the home with flowers.

Isaac and Ishmael joined together in a feast on Shavuot (an episode invented whole cloth by Jubilees) and Jacob received the covenantal blessing from his father Isaac, as well.