Shavuot
Shavuot Shavuоt Shavuot by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim Shavuot by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim Jews and Judaism Shavuot Shavuos in Ashkenazi usage, ( Hebrew : שָׁבוּעוֹת , lit. "Weeks"), is known in English as the Feast of Weeks. While it is sometimes referred to as Pentecost due to its timing after Passover, "pentecost" meaning "fifty" in Greek, since Shavuot occurs fifty days after the first day of Passover , it is not the same as the Christian Pentecost . It is a Jewish holiday that occurs on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan (it may fall between May 15 and June 14 on the Gregorian calendar). In the Bible, Shavuot marks the wheat harvest in the Land of Israel ( Exodus 34:22 ) and according to the Jewish Sages , it also commemorates the anniversary of the giving of the Torah by God to the Children of Israel at Mount Sinai in 1312 BCE. Ra
