The wonderful holiday of Shavuot is June 11-13. Shavuot is the day G‑d came down on Mt. Sinai and said the Ten Commandments. Please join us and celebrate this great day! To RSVP and for the address please email [email protected] or call (623) 349-1770.
The following is the Shavuot schedule:
June 5th
5:00pm, Shavuot dairy dinner, ice cream party and reading the Ten Commandments in the Torah.
What is Shavuot? |
Why Dairy? |
Shavuot, celebrated this year May 16-18, 2021, marks the anniversary of the day when we received the Torah at Mount Sinai. It is the second of the three major festivals (Passover being the first, and Sukkot the third), occurring exactly fifty days after the second day of Passover. |
1. On the holiday of Shavuot, a two-loaf bread offering was brought in the Temple. To commemorate this, we eat two meals on Shavuot — first a dairy meal, and then, after a short interruption, we eat the traditional holiday meat-meal. 2. With the giving of the Torah the Jews now became obligated to observe the laws of Kosher. As the Torah was given on Shabbat no cattle could be slaughtered nor could utensils be koshered, and thus on that day they ate dairy. The Torah is likened to nourishing milk. 3. Also, the Hebrew word for milk is "chalav." When the numerical value of each of the letters in the word chalav are added together - 8, 30, 2 - the total is forty. Forty is the number of days Moses spent on Mount Sinai when receiving the Torah. |