Shavuot is the Festival of Matan Torah which takes place exactly 50 days after Pesach. The word Shavuot literally means "weeks" and refers to the period of the Counting of The Omer that begins on the 2nd day of Pesach and concludes with the Festival of Shavuot. This Festival combines two major observances in Jewish life, the grain harvest of the early summer and the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai. Some of the special connections for Shavuot are Tikun Leil Shavuot and the reading of Megilat Ruth. It is minhag to eat dairy on Shavuot because the Hebrew word for milk חלב (Chalav) has a numerical value of 40, which are the days that Moses spent on Mount Sinai when he received the Torah, and because the Torah is compared to "nourishing milk."

Please note that our congregation observes the Festival of Shavuot as prescribed in Torah and as they do in Eretz Yisrael (the land of Israel) as only 1 day.

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