Also, according to the Talmud Yerushalmi, David was born and died on the Jewish holiday of Shavuot ( Feast of Weeks ).

* Shavuot (" Pentecost " or " Feast of Weeks ") celebrates the revelation of the Torah to the Israelites on Mount Sinai.

According to the Torah, Jews were required to travel to Jerusalem and offer sacrifices at the Temple three times a year: Pesach ( Passover ), Shavuot ( the Feast of Weeks ), and Sukkot ( the Feast of Tabernacles ).

While in the beginning some Shabbat, frequently during Chanukah or Passover, was selected for confirmation, it became increasingly customary, following the example of Egers, to perform the ceremony during the biblical festival of Shavuot (" Feast of Weeks ").

A discussion of the meaning of Shavuot ( the Feast of Weeks ) and of Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles, is found in the entries on those subjects.

In addition to the weekly Sabbath the Assemblies observe a number of annual holy days including Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Pentecost ( Shavuot ), the Feast of Trumpets, the Fast of Atonement ( Yom Kippur ), the Feast of Tabernacles and the Last Great Day.

As well, the " Book of Ruth " functions liturgically, as it is read during the Jewish holiday of Shavuot (" Weeks "), or Pentecost.

Jews have two holiday seasons: the Spring Feasts of Pesach ( Passover ) and Shavuot ( Weeks, called Pentecost in Greek ); and the Fall Feasts of Rosh Hashanah ( Head of the Year ), Yom Kippur ( Day of Atonement ), Sukkot ( Tabernacles ), and Shemini Atzeret ( Eighth Day of Assembly ).

Pentecost is the old Greek and Latin name for the Jewish harvest festival, or Festival of Weeks ( Hebrew חג השבועות Hag haShavuot or Shevuot, literally " Festival of Weeks "), which can be found in the Hebrew Bible, Shavuot is called the Festival of Weeks ( Hebrew: חג השבועות, chag ha-Shavuot, Exodus 34: 22, Deuteronomy 16: 10 ); Festival of Reaping ( Hebrew: חג הקציר, chag ha-Katsir, Exodus 23: 16 ), and Day of the First Fruits ( Hebrew יום הביכורים, Yom ha-Bikkurim, Numbers 28: 26 ).

* Shavuot is the Jewish Pentecost, or ' Festival of Weeks '.

The first passage establishes the timing, in days, for the Festival of Weeks ( Shavuot ), while the second prescribes the timing, in years, for the Jubilee.

The Torah delineates three pilgrimage festivals, Passover, Shavuot ( The Feats of Weeks ) and Sukkot ( Tabernacles ).

*( on Shavuot ): the Festival of Weeks, the time of the giving of our Torah

The Three Pilgrimage Festivals, known as the Shalosh Regalim ( שלוש רגלים ), are three major festivals in Judaism — Pesach ( Passover ), Shavuot ( Weeks ), and Sukkot ( Tents or Booths ) — when the Israelites living in ancient Israel and Judea would make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, as commanded by the Torah.

Many Jews consider a portion of the 49-day period of the counting of the omer between Passover and Shavuot to be a time of semi-mourning and instrumental music is not allowed during that time.

This is most likely due to the fact that the story takes place during the barley harvest, and that Shavuot is the celebration of the end of the barley harvest and the beginning of the wheat harvest.

Sefirah is the 49 day (" seven weeks ") period between Pesach and Shavuot ; it is defined by the Torah as the period during which special offerings are to be brought to the Temple in Jerusalem.

It is traditional to eat dairy meals during Shavuot.

Together with Shavuot (" Pentecost ") and Sukkot (" Tabernacles "), Passover is one of the three pilgrimage festivals ( Shalosh Regalim ) during which the entire Jewish populace historically made a pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem.

One explanation for the Counting of the Omer is that it shows the connection between Passover and Shavuot.

After Jesus ascends (), on the feast of Pentecost or Shavuot ( the 50th day from Firstfruits and thus usually calculated as the first day of the week ), the Spirit of God is given to the disciples, who baptize 3, 000 people into the apostolic fellowship.

Sometimes the term mahzor is also used for the prayer books for the three pilgrim festivals, Pesach, Shavuot and Sukkot.

* Shavuot-שבעת is interpreted as also an acronym for Shavuot, Bikkurim, Atzeret, Torah, in Hasidic thought.

Orthodox temples are often decorated with greenery and flowers on this feast day, and the celebration is intentionally similar to the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, which celebrates the giving of the Mosaic Law.

This is the same reading as on the Final Day of Passover and Second Day of Shavuot.

In the Diaspora in Ashkenazic Orthodox communities, the ceremony is performed only on Pesach, Shavuot, Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret, Rosh Hashanah, and Yom Kippur.

In the eleventh century piyyut ( religious poem ), Akdamut, recited on Shavuot ( Pentecost ), it is envisioned that, ultimately, God will slaughter the Leviathan, which is described as having " mighty fins " ( and, therefore, a kosher fish, not an inedible snake or crocodile ), and it will be served as a sumptuous banquet for all the righteous in Heaven.

Scholars suspect that the transfer of these regulations to 49th or 50th year was a deliberate attempt to parallel the fact that Shavuot is 50 days after Passover, and follows seven weeks of harvest ; this parallel is regarded as significant in Kabbalah.

Counting of the Omer ( or Sefirat Ha ' omer, Hebrew: ספירת העומר ) is a verbal counting of each of the forty-nine days between the Jewish holidays of Passover and Shavuot.

It is added because its content and style are somewhat similar to that of the original tractate Avoth ( although it focuses on Torah study more than ethics ), and to allow for one chapter to be recited on each Shabbat of the Omer period, this chapter being seen well-suited to Shabbat Shavuot, when the giving of the Torah is celebrated.

From at least the time of Saadia Gaon ( 10th century ), it has been customary to study one chapter a week on each Shabbat between Passover and Shavuot ; today, the tractate is generally studied on each Shabbat of the summer, from Passover to Rosh Hashanah, the entire cycle repeating a few times with doubling of chapters at the end if there are not a perfect multiple of six weeks.

The three major festivals, Sukkot, Passover and Shavuot, are called " regalim " ( derived from the Hebrew word " regel ", or foot ).

At the age of 17 he married and soon after went to learn in the yeshiva of Rabbi Yaakov ben Yakar in Worms, returning to his wife three times yearly, for the Days of Awe, Passover and Shavuot.

Many have prayers for weekdays, Shabbat, and the three Biblical festivals, Sukkot ( the feast of Tabernacles ), Shavuot ( the feast of weeks ) and Pesach ( Passover ).

Many Jews also make use of specialized mahzorim on the three " pilgrimage festivals " of Passover, Shavuot, and Sukkot.

* Shavuot: three day break, the break in late May or early June.

These occasions include the following: The three pilgrim festivals Passover, Shavuot, and Sukkot ( the " bigger " Jewish holy days ), mentioned in the Torah ) and Hanukkah and Rosh Chodesh ( beginnings of the new month ).

These include three meals on the Sabbath, as well as two ( dinner and lunch ) on each festival day making four each ( outside Israel ) for Shavuot, Rosh HaShana, Sukkot, two each for Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah, eight ( outside Israel ) for Passover.

# Hagigah: ( חגיגה ) (" Festival Offering ") deals with the Three Pilgrimage Festivals ( Passover, Shavuot, Sukkot ) and the pilgrimage offering that men were supposed to bring in Jerusalem.

The windows represent Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and the festivals of Sukkot, Pesach and Shavuot.

* The term Three Pilgrimage Festivals ( שלוש רגלים, shalosh regalim ) refers to Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot.