Shavuot

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Shavuot: Eating Out

Rabbi Jay Kelman

How should one celebrate the receiving of the Torah? The Talmud (Pesachim 68b) quotes a seemingly strange argument as to how to properly celebrate Yom Tov in general, and Shavuot in particular. "Rav Eliezer says, a person on Yom Tov either eats…
Article
May 18, 2018

Understanding What Happened at Har Sinai

Understanding What Happened at Har Sinai
Program
Aug 11, 2017

Shavuot: Messianic Origins

Rabbi Jay Kelman

“And these are the generations of Peretz…. Shalmon begot Boaz…and Yishai begot David" (Rut 4:18-22). So ends the Book of Rut, read on Shavuot, detailing the link from Peretz to David, the forerunner of the Mashiach. The birth of Peretz himself is…
Article
May 30, 2017

Shavuot: Strange Bedfellows

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Chanukah and Purim. Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Sukkot and Shmini Atzeret. The aforementioned holidays form natural units. When one thinks of Shavuot, the natural association is Pesach. After all, Shavuot has no independent date; it is 50…
Article
May 22, 2015

What Happened at Sinai? Revelation and its Interpreters

Dr. Elliott Malamet

Audio
May 17, 2015

Shavuot: Why Were We Chosen?

Rabbi Jay Kelman

"It was taught in the name of Rabbi Meir: Why was the Torah given to the Jewish people?" (Beitzah 25a). The simple answer—made famous by a Midrash that is taught at a very young age in all Jewish schools—is that we wanted to. "The Lord came from…
Article
Jun 3, 2014

Shavuot: Whose Torah Is It?

Rabbi Jay Kelman

The holiday of Shavuot is, outside of the observant Jewish community, a much-neglected holiday. It lasts only one day (two in the Diaspora), comes just as the summer is arriving and, unlike our other holidays, has no rituals associated with it--no…
Article
May 14, 2013

Omer: Something to Count, or Something to Eat: The Hidden Connection Between Shmitta and Har Sinai (The People and the Book 2013)

Rabbi Menachem Leibtag

Audio
Feb 18, 2013

Na'aseh v'Nishmah: Accepting Torah Through Thick and Thin

Rabbi Baruch Weintraub, Rabbi Moshe Taragin

Audio
May 22, 2012

Na'aseh v'Nishmah: Accepting Torah through Thick and Thin

Rabbi Baruch Weintraub, Rabbi Moshe Taragin

Join Torah in Motion for an evening of pre-Shavuot learning with RABBI MOSHE TARAGIN, Yeshivat Har Etzion and RABBI BARUCH WEINTRAUB, Yeshiva University Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov One Text, Two Perspectives
Program
May 20, 2012