Shavuot: How the Festival of Harvest Grew

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Published: May 26, 2014

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  1. Bavli Shabbat 86-87. Mekhilta Va-Yisa 1 and Ba-Ḥodesh 3 has a simpler calculation, concluding that the Torah was given on Friday, 6 Sivan.

Dr. Rabbi Norman Solomon was a Fellow (retired) in Modern Jewish Thought at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. He remains a member of Wolfson College and the Oxford University Teaching and Research Unit in Hebrew and Jewish… Read More
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