Shavuos/Shavuot: Our Holiday of Welcome

Shavuos/Shavuot is one of the three festivals of ingathering, some of our most ancient holidays.  On these holidays – Succos/Sukkot, Pesakh and Shavuos/Shavuot,  Israelites brought offerings to the Temple to support the priests.  Those who had no animals, fruit or grain to bring could buy sacrificial animals at the Temple.  (In the Christian Bible, the […]

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