Shavuot is coming!

Hi,

For laws of Shavuot, see the following older posts:

Eating Dairy on Shavuot

Staying up Shavuot night

The Shavuot davening

The Shavuot Torah reading

Shavuot Grass and Trees

Celebration of the week following Shavuot

Note that any dates/times in those posts refer to the schedule for the year in which I published the posts, and not this year.

Have a great day,
Mordechai

Laws of Shavuot

Hi,

For laws of Shavuot, see the following older posts:

Eating Dairy on Shavuot

Staying up Shavuot night

The Shavuot davening

The Shavuot Torah reading

Shavuot Grass and Trees

Celebration of the week following Shavuot

Note that any dates/times in those posts refer to the year in which I published the posts, and not this year.

Have a great day,
Mordechai

The Post-Shavuot Holiday

Hi,

On each of the three regalim - the holidays on which we are instructed to travel to Yerushalayim - those who travelled to Yerushalayim brought special korbanot [offerings] in honor of the occasion.

For Pesach and Succot, which have week-long celebrations, those korbanot were brought during that week. Shavuot only has one biblical day of celebration - but the korbanot could still be brought for the entire week.

To mark this, the six days after Shavuot are considered a quasi-holiday. In many synagogues, the Tachanun prayer is not recited.

(Mishneh Berurah 131:36)

Have a great day,
Mordechai