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Shavuot | שבועות |Weeks

(Greek: Pentecost)

‘And from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, you shall count for yourselves: seven completed Sabbaths. 

Vayikra 23:15

  וספרתם לכם ממחרת השׁבת מיום הביאכם את־עמר התנופה שׁבע שׁבתות תמימת תהיינה׃ 

Reading:

  • Book of Ruth

  • Reading of the 10 commandments

  • Acts 2

All night Torah Study:

  • The practice of staying up all Shavuot night to study Torah – known as Tikkun Leil Shavuot (Hebrew: תקון ליל שבועות‎‎) – has its source in the Midrash, which relates that the night before the Torah was given, the Israelites retired early to be well-rested for the momentous day ahead. They overslept and Moses had to wake them up because God was already waiting on the mountaintop. To rectify this perceived flaw in the national character, many religious Jews stay up all night to learn Torah

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