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| B'nai Emet ->Holidays-> Shavuot
On Shavuot we read from the Book of Ruth.
This year Bnai Emet Synagogue will sponsor our own Tikkun L’Eil Shavuot on Tuesday, May 18, beginning at 9 pm. Yom Tov Shavuot Service Schedule:
Kids Activities From Pesachto Shavuot - Quiz, memory game, jigsaw puzzle, scramble, tic-tac-toe. Both Shavuot and Passover activities. The following are some nice links to internet web sites that celebrateShavuot: Shavuot on the Net - the storyof Shavuot, legends and customs, the Ten Commandments, greeting cards, and aholiday message board. Shavuot at OU.ORG - a deepsite by the Orthodox Union describing many facets of Shavuot. The story,laws and service, customs. Special features includes an audio track of thereading of Ruth. Shavuot at JOI - a lightoverview of Shavuot by the Jewish Outreach Organization (a group that developsoutreach programming to help include unaffiliated Jews into the Jewishcommunity). This site contains an overview and stories. Sh@vuot Center - TheChabab's interpretation. Another deep site with lots of stories,interpretations and explanations. Shavuot Journal - Good explanationsand overviews, as well as scholarly works at the Yeshivat Har Etzion. The Karaite Korner Shavuot - Very deep explanation of Shavuot. Note that this site is bya group that "rejects later additions to the Tanach (Jewish Bible) such asthe Rabbinic Oral Law and places the ultimate responsibility of interpreting theBible on each individual. Karaism does not reject Biblical interpretation butrather holds every interpretation up to the same objective scrutiny regardlessof its source.". You get an interesting and different perspective. EverythingJewish - Nice overview of Shavuot. Hagshana's Shavuot -Shavuot by the World Zionist Organization. |
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Shavuotis a triple holiday: the Feast of Weeks (culmination of the 50 day counting ofthe Omer), celebrating the harvest season in Israel; and the anniversary of thegiving of the Ten Commandments to Moses and the Israelites at MountSinai. 
Shavuotis one of the three Jewish pilgrim holidays, where the Israelites would gatherin Jerusalem for celebration and prayer.