Shavuot is a Jewish holiday celebrated either on the 6th or 7th of Sivan depending on that month's Rosh Chodesh, since it has to start when the Omer ends. It is the only Jewish holiday that is not celebrated on the same Jewish date every year. It is celebrated one day in Israel and 2 days outside of Israel. However, reform Jews celebrate one day outside of Israel as well.
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| - Shavuot is a Jewish holiday celebrated either on the 6th or 7th of Sivan depending on that month's Rosh Chodesh, since it has to start when the Omer ends. It is the only Jewish holiday that is not celebrated on the same Jewish date every year. It is celebrated one day in Israel and 2 days outside of Israel. However, reform Jews celebrate one day outside of Israel as well.
- Shavuot (File:Loudspeaker.svg listen(help·info)) (or Shovuos (File:Loudspeaker.svg listen(help·info)), in Ashkenazi usage; Shavuʿoth in Sephardi and Mizrahi Hebrew (Hebrew: שבועות, lit. "Weeks"), known as the Feast of Weeks in English and as Pentecost (Πεντηκοστή) in Ancient Greek, is a Jewish holiday that occurs on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan (late May or early June).
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| - Passover, which precedes Shavuot
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| - Festive meals. All-night Torah study. Recital of Akdamut liturgical poem in Ashkenazic synagogues. Reading of the Book of Ruth. Eating of dairy products. Decoration of homes and synagogues with greenery .
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| - English: "Festival of Weeks"
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| - Shavuot by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
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| - Shavuot is a Jewish holiday celebrated either on the 6th or 7th of Sivan depending on that month's Rosh Chodesh, since it has to start when the Omer ends. It is the only Jewish holiday that is not celebrated on the same Jewish date every year. It is celebrated one day in Israel and 2 days outside of Israel. However, reform Jews celebrate one day outside of Israel as well.
- Shavuot (File:Loudspeaker.svg listen(help·info)) (or Shovuos (File:Loudspeaker.svg listen(help·info)), in Ashkenazi usage; Shavuʿoth in Sephardi and Mizrahi Hebrew (Hebrew: שבועות, lit. "Weeks"), known as the Feast of Weeks in English and as Pentecost (Πεντηκοστή) in Ancient Greek, is a Jewish holiday that occurs on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan (late May or early June). Shavuot has a double significance. It marks the all-important wheat harvest in the Land of Israel (Exodus 34:22); and it commemorates the anniversary of the day God gave the Torah to the entire nation of Israel assembled at Mount Sinai, although the association between the giving of the Torah (Matan Torah) and Shavuot is not explicit in the Biblical text. The holiday is one of the Shalosh Regalim, the three Biblical pilgrimage festivals. It marks the conclusion of the Counting of the Omer, and its date is directly linked to that of Passover. The Torah mandates the seven-week Counting of the Omer, beginning on the second day of Passover, to be immediately followed by Shavuot. This counting of days and weeks is understood to express anticipation and desire for the giving of the Torah. On Passover, the people of Israel were freed from their enslavement to Pharaoh; on Shavuot they were given the Torah and became a nation committed to serving God. The word Shavuot means weeks, and the festival of Shavuot marks the completion of the seven-week counting period between Passover and Shavuot. Shavuot is one of the lesser-known Jewish holidays among secular Jews in the Jewish diaspora, while those in Israel are more aware of it. According to Jewish law, Shavuot is celebrated in Israel for one day and in the Diaspora (outside of Israel) for two days. Reform Judaism celebrates only one day, even in the Diaspora.
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