Johanna Ginsberg return Register to subscribe to Luminaries for free. The Passover dishes are put away.
Summer vacation is around the corner.
And all I can think of are blintzes. For me, these light, delicious crepes filled with farmer cheese embody Shavuot, the holiday commemorating the giving of the Torah to the Jews. Though I can remember putting two blintzes on my plate as a child and imagining the two tablets of the Ten Commandments, I have a sneaking suspicion that Rashi never contemplated such an activity in discussing the customs of Shavuot. For vegetarians, the Israelites purified themselves for three days in preparation for receiving the Torah, and during that time they refrained from slaughtering animals. For the patriotic, milk symbolizes the infancy of the Jewish people and their birth as a nation at Mount Sinai.