*1880 painting*
(moritz daniel oppenheim)
(german-jewish painter)
(1800 – 1880)
(he was ’80’ when he painted this)
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‘sha VOO oat’
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“shavuot”
(hebrew for “weeks”)
(6th day of the hebrew month of ‘sivan’)
(celebrates the day ‘god’ gave the ‘torah’ to the ‘israelites’ on ‘mount sinai’)
(or ‘shovuos’ in ‘ashkenazi’ usage) –>
(shavuʿoth in ‘sephardi hebrew’ + ‘mizrahi hebrew’)
(‘hebrew’ -> שָׁבוּעוֹת)
(meaning “weeks”)
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(known as the feast of weeks in ‘english’)
(and as pentecost (Πεντηκοστή) in ‘ancient greek’)
(‘jewish holiday’ that occurs on the 6th day of the hebrew month of ‘sivan’)
(may fall between ‘may 14th’ – ‘june 15th’)
(“shavuot” has a double significance)
(it marks the all-important ‘wheat harvest’ in the ‘land of israel’ (‘exodus 34:22′) and it commemorates the anniversary of the day ‘god’ gave the ‘torah’ to the ‘entire nation of israel’ assembled at ‘mount sinai’, although the association between the giving of the ‘torah’ (matan torah) and ‘shavuot’ is not explicit in the ‘biblical text’)
(the ‘holiday’ is one of the shalosh regalim, the ‘3 biblical pilgrimage festivals’)
(it marks the conclusion of the ‘counting of the omer’, and its date is directly linked to that of ‘passover’)
(the ‘torah’ mandates the 7-week ‘counting of the omer’ (beginning on the 2nd day of ‘passover’), to be immediately followed by ‘shavuot’)
(this counting of ‘days’ and ‘weeks’ is understood to express anticipation and desire for the giving of the ‘torah’)
(on ‘passover’, the people of ‘israel’ were freed from their enslavement to ‘pharaoh’; on ‘shavuot’ they were given the ‘torah’ and became a nation committed to serving ‘god’)
(the word ‘shavuot’ means ‘weeks’, and the festival of ‘shavuot’ marks the completion of the ‘7-week counting period’ between ‘passover’ and ‘shavuot’)
(the ‘yahrzeit’ of ‘king david’ is traditionally observed on ‘shavuot’)
(‘hasidic jews’ also observe the ‘yahrzeit’ of the ‘baal shem tov’)
(‘shavuot is one of the less familiar ‘jewish holidays’ to ‘secular jews’ in the ‘jewish diaspora’, while those in ‘israel’ as well as the ‘orthodox community’ are more aware of it)
(according to ‘jewish law’, ‘shavuot’ is celebrated in ‘israel’ for ‘1 day’, and in the ‘diaspora’ (outside of ‘israel’) for ‘2 days’)
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*”reform judaism” celebrates only ‘1 day’*
(even in the ‘diaspora’)
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*👨🔬🕵️♀️🙇♀️*SKETCHES*🙇♂️👩🔬🕵️♂️*
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👈👈👈☜*“SIVAN”* ☞ 👉👉👉
*HEBREW MONTH #9 (OF 12)*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥