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. This counting of days and weeks is understood to express anticipation and desire for the giving of the Torah. 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. The word Shavuot means "weeks", and it marks the conclusion of the Counting of the Omer. In addition, rabbinic tradition teaches that the date also marks the revelation of the Ten Commandments to Moses and the Israelites at Mount Sinai, which, according to the tradition of Orthodox Judaism, occurred at this date in 1312 BCE. In the Bible, Shavuot marked the wheat harvest in the Land of Israel. "Weeks"), commonly known in English as the Feast of Weeks, is a major Jewish holiday, one of the three pilgrimage festivals, that occurs on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan (in the 21st century, it may fall between May 15 and June 14 on the Gregorian calendar). Shavuot ( listen i), or Shvu'es ( listen i) in some Ashkenazi usage ( Hebrew: שָׁבוּעוֹת, Šāvūʿōṯ, lit. In the Jewish Museum of Switzerland's collection. The inscription reads: "Jom Chag Ha Schawuot ha se". Decoration of homes and synagogues with greenery ( Orach Chayim, 494).Ħth day of Sivan (or the Sunday following the 6th day of Sivan in Karaite Judaism)Ĭoloured papercut in mixed technique depicting symbols pertinent to Judaism and nature. Recital of Akdamut liturgical poem in Ashkenazic synagogues. Culmination of the 49 days of the Counting of the Omer.įestive meals. Commemorates the wheat harvesting in the Land of Israel. Celebrates the revelation of the Five Books of the Torah by God to Moses and to the Israelites at Mount Sinai, 49 days (seven weeks) after the Exodus from ancient Egypt.
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