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Shavuot: (lit. “weeks”) The one-day holiday (two in the Diaspora) commemorating the Giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai. This late-spring holiday commences on the fiftieth day (the morrow of seven “weeks”) following the second day of Passover.
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Shavuot is the day on which we recall the giving of the Torah on Sinai. The Torah itself does not explicitly mention the connection. It merely says, “You shall count fifty days (from the second day of Pesach)… and you shall proclaim on that selfsame day: ...
The Midrash saysShir HaShirim Rabbah 1:12. that the Jewish people slept the entire night before Mattan Torah, the giving of the Torah. They did so, because the “sleep of Shavuos is sweet and the night is short.” Moreover, the Midrash goes on to state: “on...
The Midrash relates that before G-d gave the Torah to the Jewish people, He asked for guarantors. The nation offered several options - the Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Moses and the other prophets, but G-d rejected them all. The people then volunt...
Each Person as an Individual As has been mentioned,See the sichah to Parshas Shemini in this series and the sources cited there. the counting of the omer is a preparation for the giving of the Torah. Therefore, directly after the 49 days of the omer, we c...
An hour-long excerpt from a 1982 farbrengen
Each year, the Rebbe would hold a Farbrengen the night before Shavuot, often touching on topics from Tractate Sotah in the Talmud, which is customarily studied during the Counting of the Omer period, as well as discussing the lessons of the approaching ho...
The Haftorah of the first day of Shavuos is that of the Merkavah of Yechezkel,Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chayim, ch. 494. the vision of G‑d’s “Chariot” — the angels and spiritual entities — as described by the Prophet Yechezkel.Yechezkel,ch. 1. We read the Mer...
In commenting on the words, “I am — Anochi — the L‑rd your G‑d...,”Shmos 20:2. the opening words of the Ten Commandments, the Midrash states:Tanchuma (Buber), Yisro 16; Yalkut Shimoni, ibid. “The word ‘Anochi’ is of Egyptian origin.” The Ten Commandments ...
The festival of Shavuos commemorates Matan Torah, G‑d’s giving of the Torah to the world. Since, as the Gemara informs us, “Our forefathers in Egypt never ceased studying Torah,”Yoma 28b. the Jewish people evidently possessed Torah before it was formally ...
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