All posts in: Shavuos

• Shavuos

  7 years ago

  SHAVUOS

  This week we celebrate Shavuos – the time of Kabalas HaTorah. The Chumash tells us that three months after leaving Metzrayim, Bnei Yisrael reached the desert ..

  Written by Anonymous
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• Shavuos

  7 years ago

  Kasher on a Midrash on Shavuos

  This is a kasher that was asked by Rabbi Shneibalg, the rav of the Blockbuster shteeble (I believe more formally called the Yeshurun) with some help on the concepts ..

  Written by Anthony Cowen
• Shavuos

  7 years ago

  Shavuous

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  Written by Anonymous
• Shavuos

  7 years ago

  The sound of Silence

  Have you noticed in a car how the radio usually comes on with the engine? Or the first thing you do after starting up is to put on a CD? I never noted this until ..

  Written by Anonymous
• Shavuos

  7 years ago

  HELP NEEDED

  i have a question which i felt i would put to the shortvort.com readers, Please help!! The possuk says that Shavous falls out on the 50th day of the omer. (There ..

  Written by B Rose
• Shavuos

  7 years ago

  WHY SINAI

  What does the name ‘Sinai’ mean? The Talmudic interpretation is surprising – and somewhat shocking: “What is Mount Sinai? The mountain that ..

  Written by B Rose
• Shavuos

  7 years ago

  Shavuos and Nasso – The Freedom of Torah

  NASSO AND SHAVUOS – THE FREEDOM OF TORAH By Yehonasan Gefen : The parsha discusses the mitzva of Nezirus, whereby a person takes a vow to abstain from wine, ..

  Written by Yehonasan Gefen
• Shavuos

  7 years ago

  Why do we count up to Shavuos?

  When it was 2 weeks till my wedding it really hit me. I couldn’t wait – 2 weeks 2 weeks! – and every day after that I would count down to the day. ..

  Written by Moshe Kormornick
• Shavuos

  7 years ago

  finding your self in Torah

  The gemarra (pesachim 68b) records that Rav Yosef used to cook a special calf-meat to eat on Shavuos, for ‘if it was not for that day [of mattan torah] how many ..

  Written by d fine
• Shavuos

  7 years ago

  Free at last

  Examining the Jewish calendar gives rise to the following query: Why is the week-long yomtov of Sukkot followed by Shemini Atzeret, a short one-day continuance, ..

  Written by Rafi Jager