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The Torah is described as the Tree of Life, and there is a legend that Mount Sinai once was a “green mountain” covered with ...
Rabbi Daniel Bouskila is the international director of the Sephardic Educational Center.
In gratitude for liberating us from Egypt, we agreed to be God’s eternal covenant partners.The post Chosen for what? A post-Shavuot reflection appeared first on JNS.org.
It was the collision of Israel’s past with its present and future. The offerings may have been meager. The dairy dishes ...
Hebrew scholar and Jewish academic Irene Lancaster unpacks the Jewish perspective of Shavuot - the festival known to ...
Even after the holiday officially ended, celebrations continued at the Western Wall. Pilgrims lingered at the site, singing ...
Shavuot, the holiday that celebrates the Jewish people receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai, begins this year at sunset on ...
This identification of Israel with the Almighty is so profound that Shavuot was transformed into the concept of a spiritual ...