Our sages teach us that the Revelation at Sinai was a wedding. God was the groom and the Jewish people were His bride.

Every morning a Jew should wake up and feel fortunate to have the Torah and the opportunity to observe its commandments. We remember this even more so on Shavuot.

It is ironic that Shavuot is such a little-known holiday. Because in fact, Shavuot commemorates the single most important event in Jewish history - the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai.

Shavuot is the Jewish festival celebrating the giving of the Torah by God to the Jewish people at Mount Sinai, and it is a holiday filled with meaningful customs.

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Libyan and Moroccan Jews have a custom to spray one another with water on Shavuot. The reason for this tradition is that the Talmud likens the Torah to water.

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Shavuot never had the marketing potential of the others Jewish holidays – no matzah, no colorful candles, no lulav, no shofar.

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We currently find ourselves in the “Sefirat Ha’omer” period: the fifty day period between the holiday of Passover and the holiday of Shavuot. Indeed, it has been said that Shavuot is the culmination of the Passover holiday, and that these fifty days are actually a continuation, of sorts, of Passover itself.

Shavuot is the day on which the Jewish people received the Torah at Mount Sinai more than 3,300 years ago. This is a holiday to which we have been counting down.

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