Yes, you do wear white clothes on Shavuot. Those students who are participating in their confirmation ceremony should wear white, but it is not required.
In Israel, kids wear white and bring decorated baskets filled with fruit and vegetables along with a dairy treat. They wear a wreath of flowers around their heads, and sing related holiday songs and enjoy a dairy meal along with the fresh produce.
Jewish people mark Tu Bishvat by eating a symbolic meal of fruit and nuts.
On Shavuot the custom is to stay up all night studying Torah to mark the date that God gave the Ten Commandments. We pray and read the Torah (Exodus 19-20), and eating dairy foods is customary.
Many Yahudim have dairy based foods, but this is not a requirement by Torah. When the temple was available, the people brought 2 leavened loaves of bread as well as other sacrifices YaHuWaH commanded.
In my family, we still make 2 loaves of bread and dairy foods, but there is no special food required for us to eat, since we don't have the temple to offer sacrifices at (the only authorized place for the physical sacrifices of Torah).
Dairy foods are associated with the loving, nurturing generosity exemplified by a mother nursing her baby. It is this supreme love that we connect to on the anniversary of the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai. New beginnings and connecting to the Source is what Shavuot is all about.
Here are a number of other reasons for the custom to eat dairy on the first day of Shavuot:
1. Chalav-the Hebrew word for milk-has the numerical value (Gematriah) of 40 reminding us the number of days and nights thatMoses remained on Mt. Sinai.
2. One of the eight different names for Mt. Sinai is "Gavnunim," which means white like cheese.
3. The words in the Torah referring to the Shavuot holiday offering are "Minchah chadashah l'Hashem b'shavuotaychem," which are also an acronym for the Hebrew word m'chalav-"from milk."
4. When the Jews received the Torah on Shavuot they were commanded only to eat meat which was ritually slaughtered. Since none of their meat was previously slaughtered and the Torah was given on Shabbat -- when it is forbidden to slaughter animals -- they were forced to eat dairy for the rest of the day.
5. Shavuot is the completion of a spiritual process that we begin onPassover, and their respective holiday offerings represent the stages of this process. At the Passover Seder we have two cooked dishes to commemorate the two offering brought on Passover in theTemple times. To connect the two holidays, we eat two cooked foods on Shavuot as well-one meat and one dairy.
6. Two loaves of bread were offered in the Holy Temple on the holiday of Shavuot. To commemorate this offering we eat two meals on Shavuot; one dairy and one meat (eating meat is mandatory on every festival).
On Shavuot the custom is to stay up all night studying Torah to mark the date that God gave the Ten Commandments. We pray and read the Torah (Exodus 19-20), and eating dairy foods is customary.
Anything modest and formal, such as a suit for men and modest dresses for women.
1) It commemorates the date that God gave the Ten Commandments.
2) Every one of the festivals has as its purpose "remembering the Exodus from Egypt" (as stated in our prayers and the kiddush over wine).
3) In addition, Shavuot is a thanksgiving to God for the wheat-harvest.
The Megillah (scroll) of Esther is read on the Jewish holiday of Purim. It is read twice, once in the evening immediately following sunset and once in the morning as part of the morning services.
Leviticus 23:15 "'From the day after the Sabbath (which is the day of the offering of the first-fruits), the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks. 16 Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to YHWH. 17 From wherever you live, bring two loaves made of two-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour, baked with yeast, as a wave offering of firstfruits to YHWH. 18 Present with this bread seven male lambs, each a year old and without defect, one young bull and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to YHWH, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings-a food offering, an aroma pleasing to YHWH. 19 Then sacrifice one male goat for a sin offering[c] and two lambs, each a year old, for a fellowship offering. 20 The priest is to wave the two lambs before YHWH as a wave offering, together with the bread of the firstfruits. They are a sacred offering to YHWH for the priest. 21 On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly and do no regular work. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live."
Shavuot began as a harvest festival, but it also commemorates the revelation at Sinai and the giving of the Torah. While Shavuot has few rituals associated with it, many Jews stay up all night studying Torah. Other customs include eating dairy foods and reading the Book of Ruth.
Sha·vu·ot also Sha·bu·oth
n. Judaism
A feast held on the sixth and seventh days of Sivan in commemoration of the revelation of the Law on Mount Sinai and the celebration of the wheat festival in ancient times. Also called Pentecost. shavuot
noun (Judaism) Jewish holy day celebrated on the sixth of Sivan to celebrate Moses receiving the Ten Commandments also called feast of weeks
The Exodus from Egypt, and the first celebration of Passover the same night (Exodus ch.12) was about two months before the covenant at Sinai (Exodus ch.19 and 24). The connection is that the Exodus, as great as it was, served as just a backdrop and preparation for an even greater event, which was when God gave the Torah at Mount Sinai (the Sinai covenant).
Because that is when the Jews got the Torah from God at Mount Sinai. The observance of Shavuot is a Torah-mitzva (Leviticus ch.23, Deuteronomy ch.16).
The counting down of the omer is the counting down of when the Jews were to receive the Torah- the greatest, most valuable present the Jews have gotten. the counting down for the omer is the 49 days the Jews had to become pure in order to receive our present.
Jews celebrate Shavuot because the Torah commands it (Leviticus ch.23). It was the day when Moses received the gift of the Torah/ten commandment on mount Sinai and they also celebrated it because of its harvest. This holiday has nothing to do with the Christian holiday of Pentecost.
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In Judaism, Pentecost is known as Shavuot. It commemorates when God Gave the Torah to Moses & the Children of Israel.
# the Torah (what the Jews got on that day), # flowers (symbolizing how mount sinai was decorated), # the book of Ruth (the book in the bible that's read on shavuot), # harvesting (the time of year that shavuot takes place), # mount sinai (where the Torah was received by Moses and the Jewish people), # dairy foods (Jews waited to eat meat before the Torah was given since they did not yet know the specific laws of slaughtering animals-after receiving the torah, they were able to learn the laws properly to eat only kosher meat), # 49 (the countdown from the 2nd day of passover till shavuot)
It depends on the size of the farm, the equipment being used, and number of people employed on the farm.
Because the morning of Kabalat HaTorah, Bnei Yisrael slept in and Moshe had to come wake us all up. This was a sin because when one is exited about something, they get on at the crack of dawn and when Bnei Yisrael did not wake up early it showed disrespect to the torah
Shavuot commemorates the giving of the Torah on Mt Sinai and its acceptance by the Jewish people.
The story of Ruth is read because Ruth was a convert to Judaism and accepted the Torah voluntarily.
Shavuot is also referred to as the festival of harvesting - as it falls in the beginning of the summer.
Background info:
Shavuot has several different names in the Bible. In Exodus 34:22 and Deuteronomy 16:10 it is referred to as Chag Shavuot, "Feast of Weeks," one of the harvest festivals on which pilgrims brought offerings to the Temple in Jerusalem. In Numbers 28:26 it is called Yom ha-Bikkurim or "Day of the First Fruits"; Shavuot was a celebration of the harvest of the first fruits of late spring; and dates, figs, grapes, pomegranates, and olives, in addition to wheat and barley, were brought to the Temple by worshipers. In Exodus 23:16 Shavuot is called Chag ha-Katzir, meaning the "Harvest Feast"; Shavuot occurred at the conclusion to the barley harvest, which had begun at Passover, and began the early spring wheat harvest, since in Israel the month of Sivan signals the end of spring and the beginning of summer. The wheat-harvest aspect of Shavuot was observed by bringing to the Temple an offering of two bread loaves baked from the new grain harvest. The pilgrims who came to Jerusalem would gather and celebrate the festival joyously. The commandment to celebrate this holiday is found in Leviticus 23:15-21.