Coming at the beginning of summer, Shavuot commemorates the giving of the Law to Moses on Mount Sinai, in essence the birthday of the Jewish people. Learn the songs, poems, stories and readings that are part of the celebration of the Feast of Weeks across generations and throughout the Diaspora as well as in Israel. Includes selections both for children and adults.
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The holiday of the Giving of the Torah:
This is an excellent anthology containing Laws, Customs and Literature about the holiday of Shavuot.
Shavuot, the Festival of Weeks, is a holiday which many do not know much about .It is one of the Three Pilgrim Festivals, along with Pesach( Passover) and Sukkot.
One of the names for the holiday is the Festival of Weeks. It is called this because it as the Torah Teacher Phil Chernofsky points out it is the 'culmination of a process whose beginning we mark and celebrate with Pesach. The... more info
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in Goodman's "Anthology" series, perhaps because it discusses a holiday that many Jews don't know that much about. Before reading this book, for example, I never knew much about how Shavuout is celebrated in other lands (I was especially surprised when I read about the Kurdish custom of engaging in mock battles on that day) or about the custom of decorating homes and synagogues with greenery.
