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Shalom friends,
Seven weeks after the second night of Passover, we celebrate Shavuot – one of the three Biblical pilgrimage festivals. This biblical-mandated Holiday dovetails religious, spiritual, agricultural, historical, and national significance. The names of this Holiday may tell us about it:
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(Shavu’ot, Weeks) – We count 7 full weeks from |
Passover to Shavu'ot to remind us of the important connection between Passover and Shavu'ot: In Passover we were physically freed from our slavery in Egypt. In Shavu’ot, we were spiritually freed when the Torah was given.
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(xag hakatsir, Harvest Holiday) - An agricultural |
festival, marking the beginning of the wheat harvest.
"and the feast of harvest, the first fruit of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field" (Exodus: 23: 16).
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(xag habikurim, First Fruits Festival) - The Torah |
commanded the Jewish farmers to bring to the Temple their first fruits and gratitude G-d for blessing the land of Israel.
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(xag matan torah, The holiday of the giving of |
the Torah) – The Jewish tradition refers to Shavu’ot as the time the Torah was given to the children of Israel on Mount Sinai over 3,300 years ago. This was the only time that G-d revealed His Presence and was heard by the children of Israel. In this historical and spiritual event the Ten Commandments were given and the bondage between G-d and the chosen nation was created.
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| During the Shavu’ot Holiday we read |
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(megilar ruth, the Scroll of Ruth) – the |
story of Ruth the Moabitess who converted and married Boaz. She is the great grandmother of King David. We also eat dairy meals, and decorate our homes and synagogues with flowers and greens.
In Israel, the ceremony of Bikurim was renewed during the new settlement in the land of Israel. The ceremonies take place mainly in agricultural settlements such as Moshavim and Kibbutzim and in schools, featuring songs and dances, agricultural shows and children carrying baskets full of first fruits.
Xag Shavu’ot Sameax!
Happy Shavo'utr
The Hebrew Online Team.
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"A land of wheat, and barley, and vines; of fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey." (Deuteronomy: 8:8)
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(Shiv’at haminim, seven species). |
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(first fruit offerings) in the Temple were limited to these "seven species". |
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Xita |
Wheat |
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Se'ora |
Barley |
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| Feminine |
Gefen |
Vine |
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Te'ena |
Fig |
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Rimon |
Pomegranate |
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Zeit Shemen |
Olive oil |
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D'vash |
Honey |
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Erets Zavat Xalav
Words: from the Torah
Lyric: A. Gamli'el |
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The Song
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Land flowing with milk
... Milk and honey
Land flowing with milk
Flowin with milk and honey
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Erets zavat xalav
... xalav u'dvash
Erets zavat xalav
Zavat xalav u'dvash.
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See if you can find all of the words below in the puzzle:
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Name:
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Ruth (Rut)
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Female
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Time of Appearance:
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The Biblical Era
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History:
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Ruth the Moabitess was the mother of King David's grandfather.
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"And Elimelech Naomi’s husband died, and she was left and her two sons. And they took them wives of the women of Moab, the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth." Ruth 1, 3-4
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Name:
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Boaz (Bo'az)
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Mmale
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Time of Appearance:
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The Biblical Era
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History:
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The second husband of Ruth the Moabitess. The father of King David's grandfather.
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"And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband’s, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz. And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field and aglean ears of bcorn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter." Ruth 2, 1-2
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