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Shavuot, one of the three pilgrimage festival holidays, celebrates the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai and the harvest of First Fruits, Yom haBikkurim.
The chag falls on the sixth and seventh days of the Hebrew month of Sivan. (The festival is observed only on the sixth of Sivan in Israel.) Like Sukkot and Passover, Shavuot is a multi-dimensional holiday, embracing profound historical, spiritual, and agricultural aspects.
On the first night of Shavuot, synagogues, community centers, and homes around the world fill with the sound of learning. People gather late into the night, studying Torah together. The custom of staying awake on Shavuot night likely began in the 1500s, particularly among the Jewish mystics living in Tzfat, led by figures like Rabbi Isaac Luria and Rabbi Yosef Karo.
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📄 "On the first night of Shavuot, synagogues, community centers, and homes around the world fill with the sound of learning. People gather late into the night, studying Torah together.
But where did this tradition of staying awake all night, known as Tikkun Leil Shavuot, come from? And what is it meant to accomplish?"
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📄 "Shavuot falls on the sixth and seventh days of the Hebrew month of Sivan. (The festival is observed only on the sixth of Sivan in Israel.) Like Sukkot and Passover, it is a multi-dimensional holiday, embracing profound historical, spiritual, and agricultural aspects."
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📄 "Shavuot is an amazing holiday and there are so many reasons to love it. Here are 10 great reasons that Shavuot might be your favorite holiday."
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📄 "Why do Jews eat dairy on Shavuot? From cheesecake to spiritual metaphors, here are 10 reasons behind the holiday’s dairy connection."
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📄 "Candle-lighting, Torah readings, the Book of Ruth, and Yizkor are all a part of celebrating Shavuot at home and at synagogue."
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📄 Relatos alegóricos sobre la entrega de la Torá | "En este compilado de midrashim hemos seleccionado para compartir con ustedes, algunos midrashim alegóricos que los inviten a estudiarlos y compartirlos."
🎧 Shavuot: Rollo de Ruth | "En esto episodio de "Nuestros Jaguim", el podcast del Seminario Rabínico Latinoamericano, hablamos sobre este libro tan especial del Tanaj, la Biblia hebrea, y su conexión con Jag HaShavuot, junto al Jazán Jonathan Kohan y la Rabina Deborah Rosenberg."
📄 Un cadeau de Chavouot de la part du Rabbin Josh Weiner: une étude indépendante pour la nuit de Chavouot, avec plein de textes et de questions sur ce qu'on appelle les dix commandements.
📄 Shavouot, présentation générale | "Seconde des trois fêtes de pèlerinage (chlocha regalim), la Pentecôte (« cinquantième » en grec) juive a lieu le 6 Sivan (et éventuellement le 7, en Diaspora) soit 49 jours après le 1er soir de Pessa’h (49 = 7 x 7 : importance du chiffre 7 dans le judaïsme)."
Illustration : Marc Chagall, Ruth glaneuse, tirée de La Bible, 1960
📄 Commentaires autour de la fête de Shavouot et du livre de Ruth | "Corona Torah serait la latinisation de Keter Torah, « La couronne de la Torah », expression qui, entre autres usages, donne son titre à un long poème de Isaachar Bär ben Judah Carmoly, rabbin alsacien du 18è siècle, pur génie quant à l’érudition, l’intelligence et la créativité."
Illustration : Marc Chagall, Moïse recevant les Tables de la Loi, 1966
📄 L’été en pente douce | "Célébrée sept semaines après Pessah et placée sous le signe de l’étude, la fête de Chavouot est une des plus discrètes du calendrier juif. Faut-il le regretter ou au contraire s’en réjouir ?"
🎞 Tradições e valores de Shavuót, ontem e hoje | Assista as aulas do curso online que abordou o significado da festa de Shavuót, tanto do ponto de vista histórico e bíblico, quanto na sua relevância atual.
🎧 Midrasheando - As histórias da tradição nos dias de hoje | "A história de Ruth é lida na festa de Shavuot, a festa que celebra a entrega da Torá e nosso recebimento ano após ano. Ruth é uma moabita que dá a volta por cima na terra de Israel e se torna uma grande “matriarca” do povo. Muitos dos elementos da história de hoje foram inspirados pelo livro "Sheva Imaot" (sete matriarcas) de Iochi Brandeis."
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📄 "Shavuot firas sju veckor (50 dagar) efter pesach och varar i två dagar. Shavuot kallas därför på svenska ofta "veckofesten", på engelska kallas den för Pentecost (efter grekiskan för "Femtio". Vi börjar räkna dagarna fram tills shavuot från och med pesach, detta kallas "sefirat haOmer", omerräkningen."
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📄 Shavout-guide för familjer | "Shavuot markerar dagen då Toran gavs till det judiska folket på berget Sinai. Den dagen var en mycket ovanlig dag med blixtar och åska, och jorden skakade. Moshe kom ner från berget, hans ansikte helt rött, och läste de tio budorden för alla som samlades omkring honom - Israels barn, judarna."
📄משמעות השמות השונים של חג שבועות | "חג השבועות מוכר לנו בכמה שמות במקרא: 'חג הקציר' (שמות כ"ג) – מאחר והגענו לעונת הקציר; 'חג שבועות' (שמות ל"ד, דברים ט"ז) – לאחר שספרנו שבעה שבועות מחג המצות; ללא שם, אבל עם אזכורים לספירת העומר, הקציר והבאת ביכורים (ויקרא כ"ג); ו'יום הביכורים' – על שום המצווה הייחודית של חג זה של הבאת ביכורים (במדבר כ"ח)."
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🎞 Shavuot: The Wheat Harvest | "In honor of Shavuot, this short film traces the story of wheat – from 11,000-year-old grains, through the biblical meeting of Ruth and Boaz, to the bounteous harvest in a 20th-century painting by Nahum Gutman." (in Hebrew with English subtitles)
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