02/06/2025
Torah Reading for Shavuot.
โืฉึธืืืึผืขืึนืช Shavuot [The Feast Of Weeks] ~Chag HaShavuot
~ืื ืืฉืืืขืืช~Chag HaShavuot.
โZeman Matan Toratenuโ (โthe time of the giving of our Torah!โ)
Torah Reading for Shavuot.
On the first day of Shavuot we read from Exodus chapters 19 and 20.
Exodus 19:1-20:23; Deuteronomy 14:22-16:17.
On the second day of Shavuot we read from Deuteronomy chapters 14-16 which detail the laws of the three pilgrimage festivals
Shemot (Exodus) Chapter 19.
โIn the third month after the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. And when they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mount. And Moses went up unto God, and HaShem called unto him out of the mountain, saying: 'Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel: โฆโฆโฆโ (Exodus 19:1-5).
During Shavuot, we also read the Book of Ruth, a woman who voluntarily follows the laws and the God of her mother-in-law after her husband has died, even though she is a non-Jew. In her zealous behavior, we are reminded of โchoosing,โ once again, our own treasured tradition.
It is also the custom to study all night from prophet Ezekiel as well as passages from Torah, reinforcing the place of Torah in our hearts.
Torah: Deuteronomy 14:22 - 16:17. Numbers 28:26-31.
Prophets: Ezekiel 1:1-28. Ezekiel 3:12. Habakkuk 2:20 - 3:19.
Writings: Ruth: 1:1 - 4:22.
May the joy of the Torah which, was given thousands of years ago at Sinai, on which day God healed our ancestors who stood at Sinai of all infirmities, thereby preparing them physically to receive the spiritual blessings which Torah brings, nurturing the soul and body, be ours this Shavuot.
And may Yahweh grant that you should receive the Torah joyously and in an "inner" way ~ Kabbalat HaTorah BโSimcha Uโpnimiyout!
Yom Tov!