Talk:Shavuot

message: *Why is this holiday one day long in Israel and two days long elsewhere? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.151.40.104 (talk) 22:13, 12 June 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Question

message: Is there a reason that his article doesn't use the infobox holiday like all other holidays?Jon513 19:52, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Infobox holiday

message: Shavuot, sometimes pronounced Shavuos (Hebrew: שבועות; Israeli Heb. [ʃa•vu•'ʕot]; Ashkenazi [ʃə•'vu•əs]; "[Feast of] Weeks"), is one of the three annual times appointed by YHWH (The LORD, Jehovah) observed by all faithful males in their appearance at the place appointed by YHWH (Deuteronomy 16:16); by Rabbinical tradition most Jews observe this on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan, corresponding to late May or early June. It marks the conclusion of the Counting of the Omer and the day the Torah was given at Mount Sinai. It is one of the shalosh regalim, the three Biblical pilgrimage festivals mandated by the Torah. Others, Torah observant Christians and Messianics, count fifty days from the day after the first Sabbath, or Easter which is on the first Sunday,  after Passover; the Greek word in the Septuagint and the New Testament is "pentecost" meaning "count fifty" in accordance with Leviticus 23:15. Pentecost was from that Sunday in 34AD when the Holy Spirit was given to the first Christians, including all belivers in YHWH regardless of Nationality. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.28.12.56 (talk) 13:49, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The photo of bikurim (first fruits) used in this article includes bell peppers and maize.  Both are of North American origin, and would not have been offered in Temple times.  Also, orange carrots were a Dutch innovation of the 15th or 16th century.  Perhaps a more historically accurate example of bikurm would be appropriate? 134.174.21.2 (talk) 12:25, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Irrespective of origin, carrot, peppers and maize are not fruits within the context of Bikurim. I am deleting the picture from this article. --Redaktor (talk) 10:45, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bikurim Photo 

message: can be added to ext. links. Can't do it myself since I'm part of that site. Tnx. יוסף שמח (talk) 16:49, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  link 

message: I can't understand this edit. Sourced material was removed. Reason given is that it is an "op-ed" article — it doesn't call itself that. Another reason given is that it is "advertising" — for what? I put it back in, with another source asserting the same idea. Bus stop (talk) 22:06, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "forgotten holiday", "little-known" 

message: In the infobox, a transliteration of the actual Hebrew name could be helpful. I don't know any Hebrew, but if anyone does, perhaps they could transliterate it. --N-k (talk) 20:36, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transliteration in infobox 

message: This section is rather confused and confusing regarding the origin of the custom. Certainly the information regarding the text of Tikkun Leil Shavuos is wrong. Every copy of the Tikkun I have ever seen ascribes its organisation to the Shaloh. Section needs major rewrite. If no one else does it, and if no objection, I will try to do it when time allows.Kepipesiom (talk) 10:41, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tikkun Leil Shavuot 

message: The Counting of the Omer section starts, "The Torah states that the Omer offering (i.e., the first day of counting the Omer) is the first day of corn harvest".  Is this a holdover from the KJV?  Shouldn't that be "barley harvest"? Pedantrician (talk) 22:20, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. Thanks for the heads-up. Yoninah (talk) 08:27, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corn? 

message: :Someone should probably take a look at this source from the Dead Sea Scrolls and work out the best place for it in the article.
The date of Shevuot was disputed in the Second Temple period. The Qumran community, commonly associated with the Essenes, held in its library several texts mentioning Shevuot, most notably a Hebrew original of the Book of Jubilees which sought to fix the celebration of this Feast of Weeks on 15 of Kislev, following their interpetation of Exodus 19:1. ref  Joseph Fitzmyer Responses to 101 questions on the Dead Sea scrolls  1992 p87- "Particularly important for the Qumran community was the celebration of this Feast of Weeks on 111/15, because according to Exod 19:1 Israel arrived in its exodus-wandering at Mt. Sinai in the third month after leaving Egypt.. Later the renewal of the Covenant came to be celebrated on the Feast of Weeks (see Jubilees"  
* Where it is between Leviticus and Bikkurim looks a bit disjointed at the moment. In ictu oculi (talk) 09:44, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Shevuot in Jewish literature of the post-Torah pre-Mishnah gap

message: Since I saw this issue about the Christian holiday (not to be confused with, etc.) deleted and reverted a few times, I took the liberty of taking the fact and moving it into a footnote with a cross reference. I hope this will meet with everyone's satisfaction: it explains the connection fully, yet takes it out of the body text, where it is really a distraction. StevenJ81 (talk) 15:03, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Squelching a budding edit war 

message: Under "Significance", "Scriptural", "Names in the Torah":
If Shavuot happens 49 days after Passover, then Pentecost ["50th", another name for the same day] can't be the 50th day after Passover. So which is it? -lifeform (talk) 06:23, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: It is the 50th day, there being 49 days in between. I agree that the present text at Shavuot#Names_in_the_Torah isn't clear in this regards and should be improved. Debresser (talk) 07:33, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  49 or 50? 

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replies: text: Checked, and updated where available. StevenJ81 (talk) 18:14, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

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replies: text: Checked. StevenJ81 (talk) 18:15, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified (January 2018) 

message: Since Jews in the diaspora add a second day, does that mean they spend two sleepless nights studying Torah, or just the first one? I assume the latter to be true, but who knows. More information on differences between the holiday in Israel and the diaspora, preferably referenced, would be welcome. I am sure some users have enough knowledge to include references to halakhic literature (Maimonides, Shulkhan Arukh and so on) on such topics, too. --178.24.249.140 (talk) 14:25, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  All-night study 

message: How do these groups celebrate Shavuot, and how do their traditions differ from rabbinic Judaism? Information, preferably backed up by literature and links, would be welcome! --178.24.249.140 (talk) 14:25, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Of course they do since it is a Biblical holiday. Thanks for asking, otherwise I would have started a new topic to supply this link for Karaite Judaism (author seems dubious though [considering some other content]) and that one for Samaritan tradition (by a well-known Samaritan scholar); the former writes more about the date differing, the latter about how Samaritans celebrate, sometimes compared to Jewish tradition. If someone has enough time to write sections on these groups (and Ethiopian Jews, see question above), feel free to use these! --89.204.153.233 (talk) 21:44, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Karaites, Samaritans, and Beta Israel