Shavuot for Hebrew Year 8979 begins in Israel 🇮🇱 at sundown on and ends at nightfall on .
The festival of Shavuot (or Shavuos, in Ashkenazi usage; Shabhuʿoth in Classical and Mizrahi Hebrew Hebrew: שבועות, lit. “Weeks”) is a Jewish holiday that occurs on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan (late May or early June). Shavuot commemorates the anniversary of the day G-d gave the Torah to the entire Israelite nation assembled at Mount Sinai, although the association between the giving of the Torah (Matan Torah) and Shavuot is not explicit in the Biblical text. The holiday is one of the Shalosh Regalim, the three Biblical pilgrimage festivals. It marks the conclusion of the Counting of the Omer.
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Holiday | Starts | Ends in Israel 🇮🇱 | Hebrew Date |
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Shavuot 5216 | 6 Sivan 8976 | ||
Shavuot 5217 | 6 Sivan 8977 | ||
Shavuot 5218 | 6 Sivan 8978 | ||
Shavuot 5219 | 6 Sivan 8979 | ||
Shavuot 5220 | 6 Sivan 8980 | ||
Shavuot 5221 | 6 Sivan 8981 | ||
Shavuot 5222 | 6 Sivan 8982 | ||
Shavuot 5223 | 6 Sivan 8983 |
This page displays the Israel holiday schedule. The Diaspora schedule is used by Jews living outside of modern Israel.
Torah Portion: Exodus 19:1-20:23; Numbers 28:26-31
Haftarah: Ezekiel 1:1-28, 3:12 · 29 p’sukim
Every Person’s Guide to Shavuot
by Ronald H. Isaacs
How To Celebrate Shavuot At Home
by Abraham J. Karp
Sammy Spider’s First Shavuot
by Sylvia A. Rouss
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