Shavuot

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Western Wall draws 100,000 people as Shavuot ends

Some 20,000 worshipers are estimated to have attended sunrise prayers after a night of learning...

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Bread Of Days Gone By

There are not too many surprises with the seasons in Israel. The long summers are predictably hot...

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Pentecost for Israel and for Us

On the day of Pentecost during the Festival of Shavuot, the Jewish Festival of Weeks that is...

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The Fulfilment of the Day of Pentecost and the Gift of the Holy Spirit

The outpouring of the Holy Spirit did not occur just somehow or somewhere. The Spirit came “like t...

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Resurrection to Ascension & Pentecost

After His resurrection from the dead, Jesus remained with His disciples for another 40 days before...

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Shvuos 5780: Vision of Rabbi Jacobs

Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs shares his vision in these complicated times from the synagogue in...

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Ruth as the ‘Type’ of Israel

The book of Ruth is traditionally read in the synagogue during the Feast of Pentecost...

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Fellow citizens and members of the family

The congregation is the place created by God after Whitsun (Shavuot) where the gentiles may share...

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The Feast of Shavu’ot

“You shall count seven weeks (...) Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God” (De...

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The New Covenant With Israel: First-Fruits

Shavuot or Shovuos, in Ashkenazi usage; Shavuʿoth in Sephardi and Mizrahi Hebrew (Hebrew...

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Shavuot – The Day that Shook the World

Discover the most important intellectual development in human history - the giving of the...