About the month of Sivan: Important facts and figures

Shavuot basics


Meanings for Shavuot: Agricultural festival or time of the giving of the Torah?
Francine Klagsbrun

"With baskets on our shoulders...": A popular Shavuot song
Sung by the Zamir Chorale of Boston

"And I betroth you to me forever": A celestial marriage certificate for Shavuot
Israel Majara (16th-cent. poet and mystic)


Flowers, leaves, boughs and trees: The floral traditions of Shavuot


Blintzes and sour cream, wherefore? The culinary art of Shavuot

Ashkenazi and Sephardi (dairy) recipes for Shavuot
Claudia Roden


King Agrippa and the Firstfruits: A short story for children
Samuel Shihor

Animal-headed harvesters: in an illustrated 14th-century S. German manuscript
Joseph Gutmann

Shavuot and the paradigm of marital union: A mystical view of the Shavuot festival rituals
David S. Ariel


"The Book of Ruth and Naomi": A contemporary poem about love and friendship
Marge Piercy

 

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