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BETWEEN THE LINES: Can Shavuot Speak To Us Today?
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BETWEEN THE LINES: Can Shavuot Speak To Us Today?
Poor Shavuot.
The Rodney Dangerfield of festivals in the Jewish calendar, it has neither the length of days of the other two annual festivals or ritualistic symbols connected with its observance, like the sukkah, lulav and etrog of Sukkot or the seder, matzah and maror of Passover.
Perhaps as a result, the two-day holiday, which begins this year on Tuesday evening, is the last observed of the festivals, and many Jews do not even know its significance.
Yet Shavuot is the anniversary of the Ten Commandments being given to Moses on Mount Sinai. ...
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