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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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.
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The holiday of the Giving of the Torah,
By Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel) - See all my reviews (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)
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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 Mishna's name for Shavuot - Atzeret- also points to its role as the cap and crown to Pesach." Shavuot is the culmination of Pesach and the Divine Promise that we will be taken out of Egypt and given the Torah. But as Phil Chernofsky points out, the holiday is also called 'Chag HaKatzir' the holiday of the cutting of the grain. And also Yom HaBikkurim to indicate its relation to the first fruits and our being brought to a good land, a land of Milk and Honey. Shavuot is also the holiday which has a special place for converts to Judaism. The book of Ruth, the archetypal convert to Judaism( "Wherever you go , I will go , your people shall be my people, and your G-d, my G-d") is read on Shavuot. Goodman's excellent anthology also details the customs of the Holiday such as the custom of eating dairy foods. Chag Sameach.
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