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Articles about Shavuot

Iyar 26 5779 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
Rus, David, and the Prohibition of Marrying Moavites
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Iyar 3 5778 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
RETURN, RESPECT, REDEMPTION
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Sivan 3 5775 | Rabbi Eliezer Melamed
Spiritual and Material Joy: A Shavuot Primer
The joy of the Shavuot holiday is both spiritual and material. A true enjoyment of the holiday this year entails knowing how to go from Sabbath observance into yomtov, in addition to the laws of the yomtov itself.
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Iyar 29 5775 | Rabbi Dov Berl Wein
The meaning of Shavuot
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Rabbi Dov Berl Wein
What is special in Shavout
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5772 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
Preparing Milchig and Fleishig for Shavuos
There is a widespread custom to eat at least some milchig meals on Shavuos. A housewife asked me this question: since this year Shavuos follows on the heels of Shabbos, and she has no large pareve pots, is there a way for her to prepare side dishes or desserts that she may then serve with both her meat and her dairy meals?
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5771 | Rabbi Dov Berl Wein
Shavuot
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5770 | Rabbi Dov Berl Wein
Shavuot Thoughts
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5770 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
Make our Mitzvos Count!!
What is the source for the count of 613 Mitzvot? What are the rules that govern what we include in the count of the 613 Mitzvot?
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5770 | Rabbi Chanan Morrison
The Lesson of Mount Sinai
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5770 | Rabbi Chanan Morrison
Revealing Our Inner Essence
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5770 | Rabbi Chanan Morrison
Seeing Sound
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Sivan 5768 | Rabbi Macy A. Gordon
The Lesson of Elimelech
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Sivan 5767 | Rabbi Yaakov Cohen
The Shavuot Festival and Creation
There is an interesting parallel between the seven days of creation and each of Judaism's seven holidays. These similarities are discernible in both the Torah's language and in the subject matter of each day of creation and each holiday.
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Iyar 5767 | Rabbi Avraham Shapira Zt"l
Shavuot - A Festival of Oral Tradition
Shavuot, the festival of the giving of the Torah, is a festival of Judaism's oral tradition. It belongs to the Torah scholars in each age. In every generation the Torah is given anew, and this day has the power to allow a renewed acceptance of Torah.
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Shavuot - The Day Hashem Gave Us ...Wheat?
We are supposed to learn Torah in such a manner that it is a continuation of that sacred encounter. Apparently, if too much explicit stress would be put on the one event, we might not see our involvement in the study as a continuation of the process that only began on Har Sinai.
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5764 | Rabbi Adin Even-Yisrael (Steinsaltz)
Firstfruits of the Wheat Harvest
National liberation, in its initial stages, awakens great excitement. After this, though, one begins to sense that freedom is not the solution to all problems. Only with the receiving of the Torah do the firstfruit Festivals draw to a close.
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5764 | Rabbi Macy A. Gordon
The Lesson of Elimelech
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5757 | Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Sabato
Megilat Rutyh To Perpetuate the Name of the Dead
Naomi was certain that Boaz would not allow himself to participate in an act of prostitution. She knew that once he understood their motives and grasped his own responsibility as a redeemer, he would surely take Ruth for his wife.
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5759 | Rabbi S. Yossef Weitzen
Shavuot and the True Value of Torah
On the Festival of Shavuot, we must remember this important point: Everything which we learn we learn because the Almighty commanded us to do so, and the true value of Torah study is that it gives vitality to all of creation.
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