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      "title": "Shavuot",
      "deck": "The Festival of the Giving of the Torah — fifty days after Pesach, the early summer pilgrimage festival.",
      "summary": "Summary. Shavuot (literally \"weeks\") falls on the 6th of Sivan in Israel (6th–7th in the diaspora). The Torah commands it as the conclusion of the seven-week count from Pesach (Vayikra 23:15–22). In rabbinic tradition, Shavuot is zeman matan torateinu — \"the season of the giving of our Torah\" — commemorating the revelation at Sinai. The customs include the all-night Tikkun Leil Shavuot (study session), the reading of the Book of Ruth, the eating of dairy foods, and the decoration of synagogues with greenery. The Ten Commandments are read in synagogue from a Torah scroll.",
      "level": "essential",
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        "shavuot",
        "torah",
        "first fruits"
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      "slug": "sacred-time",
      "title": "Sacred Time"
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      {
        "type": "summary",
        "body": "Summary. [Shavuot](/glossary.json#letter-S) (literally \"weeks\") falls on the 6th of [Sivan](/glossary.json#letter-S) in Israel (6th–7th in the diaspora). The [Torah](/glossary.json#letter-T) commands it as the conclusion of the seven-week count from [Pesach](/glossary.json#letter-P) ([Vayikra 23:15–22](https://www.sefaria.org/Leviticus.23.15-22)). In rabbinic tradition, Shavuot is [zeman matan torateinu](/glossary.json#letter-Z) — \"the season of the giving of our Torah\" — commemorating the revelation at Sinai. The customs include the all-night [Tikkun Leil Shavuot](/glossary.json#letter-T) (study session), the reading of the Book of [Ruth](/glossary.json#letter-R), the eating of dairy foods, and the decoration of synagogues with greenery. The Ten Commandments are read in synagogue from a Torah scroll.",
        "text": "Summary. Shavuot (literally \"weeks\") falls on the 6th of Sivan in Israel (6th–7th in the diaspora). The Torah commands it as the conclusion of the seven-week count from Pesach (Vayikra 23:15–22). In rabbinic tradition, Shavuot is zeman matan torateinu — \"the season of the giving of our Torah\" — commemorating the revelation at Sinai. The customs include the all-night Tikkun Leil Shavuot (study session), the reading of the Book of Ruth, the eating of dairy foods, and the decoration of synagogues with greenery. The Ten Commandments are read in synagogue from a Torah scroll."
      },
      {
        "type": "heading",
        "body": "Tikkun Leil Shavuot",
        "text": "Tikkun Leil Shavuot"
      },
      {
        "type": "paragraph",
        "body": "The all-night Shavuot study session is a [Kabbalistic](/glossary.json#letter-K) practice that originated with the 16th-century Safed mystics around [the Arizal](/glossary.json#letter-T) and [Rabbi Yosef Karo](/glossary.json#letter-Y). The custom is to stay up all night studying Torah, in symbolic preparation for receiving the Torah at Sinai (drawing on a [Midrash](/glossary.json#letter-M) that the Israelites overslept on the morning of the revelation, requiring God to wake them; the all-night study is the rectification). Standard Tikkun texts (printed in the Tikkun Leil Shavuot booklet) include passages from each of the books of [Tanakh](/glossary.json#letter-T) and from the [Mishnah](/glossary.json#letter-M) and [Zohar](/glossary.json#letter-Z). Contemporary practice often substitutes a series of [shiurim](/glossary.json#letter-S) on diverse topics.",
        "text": "The all-night Shavuot study session is a Kabbalistic practice that originated with the 16th-century Safed mystics around the Arizal and Rabbi Yosef Karo. The custom is to stay up all night studying Torah, in symbolic preparation for receiving the Torah at Sinai (drawing on a Midrash that the Israelites overslept on the morning of the revelation, requiring God to wake them; the all-night study is the rectification). Standard Tikkun texts (printed in the Tikkun Leil Shavuot booklet) include passages from each of the books of Tanakh and from the Mishnah and Zohar. Contemporary practice often substitutes a series of shiurim on diverse topics."
      },
      {
        "type": "heading",
        "body": "The Ten Commandments and the Book of Ruth",
        "text": "The Ten Commandments and the Book of Ruth"
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      {
        "type": "paragraph",
        "body": "On Shavuot morning, the Torah reading is the Ten Commandments ([Shemot 19:1–20:23](https://www.sefaria.org/Exodus.19.1-20.23)). The congregation traditionally stands for this reading. The Book of Ruth is read on Shavuot — five chapters about the Moabite convert who becomes the great-grandmother of David. Multiple reasons are given: Ruth's story takes place at the wheat harvest (which Shavuot also marks); Ruth as a convert parallels the entire Jewish people receiving the Torah at Sinai (the whole people as converts to the covenant); the tradition that David was born and died on Shavuot.",
        "text": "On Shavuot morning, the Torah reading is the Ten Commandments (Shemot 19:1–20:23). The congregation traditionally stands for this reading. The Book of Ruth is read on Shavuot — five chapters about the Moabite convert who becomes the great-grandmother of David. Multiple reasons are given: Ruth's story takes place at the wheat harvest (which Shavuot also marks); Ruth as a convert parallels the entire Jewish people receiving the Torah at Sinai (the whole people as converts to the covenant); the tradition that David was born and died on Shavuot."
      },
      {
        "type": "heading",
        "body": "Dairy Foods",
        "text": "Dairy Foods"
      },
      {
        "type": "paragraph",
        "body": "Many traditions hold that on Shavuot one eats dairy foods (cheesecake, blintzes, lasagna). Multiple explanations: (1) the Torah is likened to milk ([Shir HaShirim 4:11](https://www.sefaria.org/Song_of_Songs.4.11)); (2) on receiving the Torah and its [kashrut](/glossary.json#letter-K) laws, the Israelites did not yet have [kosher](/glossary.json#letter-K) meat ready, so ate dairy; (3) the [gematria](/glossary.json#letter-G) of [chalav](/glossary.json#letter-C) (milk) is 40, the number of days Moshe spent on Sinai. Whatever the reason, cheesecake is widely eaten.",
        "text": "Many traditions hold that on Shavuot one eats dairy foods (cheesecake, blintzes, lasagna). Multiple explanations: (1) the Torah is likened to milk (Shir HaShirim 4:11); (2) on receiving the Torah and its kashrut laws, the Israelites did not yet have kosher meat ready, so ate dairy; (3) the gematria of chalav (milk) is 40, the number of days Moshe spent on Sinai. Whatever the reason, cheesecake is widely eaten."
      },
      {
        "type": "heading",
        "body": "Bikkurim",
        "text": "Bikkurim"
      },
      {
        "type": "paragraph",
        "body": "In the [Beit HaMikdash](/glossary.json#letter-B), Shavuot was the season for bringing the [bikkurim](/glossary.json#letter-B) — the first fruits of [the seven species](/glossary.json#letter-S) (wheat, barley, grape, fig, pomegranate, olive, date) — in a public ceremony described in [the Mishnah (Bikkurim 3)](https://www.sefaria.org/Mishnah_Bikkurim.3). The Torah passage of [mikra bikkurim](/glossary.json#letter-M) (\"my father was a wandering Aramean\" — [Devarim 26](https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.26)) was recited. Contemporary Israeli secular [kibbutzim](/glossary.json#letter-K) revived a folk-festival form of bikkurim. The full [mitzvah](/glossary.json#letter-M) awaits the rebuilding of the Temple.",
        "text": "In the Beit HaMikdash, Shavuot was the season for bringing the bikkurim — the first fruits of the seven species (wheat, barley, grape, fig, pomegranate, olive, date) — in a public ceremony described in the Mishnah (Bikkurim 3). The Torah passage of mikra bikkurim (\"my father was a wandering Aramean\" — Devarim 26) was recited. Contemporary Israeli secular kibbutzim revived a folk-festival form of bikkurim. The full mitzvah awaits the rebuilding of the Temple."
      },
      {
        "type": "heading",
        "body": "Where Denominations Diverge",
        "text": "Where Denominations Diverge"
      },
      {
        "type": "paragraph",
        "body": "Universal observance. The [Reform](/glossary.json#letter-R) movement substantially recovered Shavuot in the 19th century with the institution of Confirmation, a ceremony for teenagers (typically 15–17) marking the completion of religious education, held annually on Shavuot in many Reform congregations. Confirmation is near-universal in Reform and [Reconstructionist](/glossary.json#letter-R) congregations and is found in some [Conservative](/glossary.json#letter-C) ones; it is not an Orthodox practice. Tikkun Leil Shavuot has become near-universal across denominations.",
        "text": "Universal observance. The Reform movement substantially recovered Shavuot in the 19th century with the institution of Confirmation, a ceremony for teenagers (typically 15–17) marking the completion of religious education, held annually on Shavuot in many Reform congregations. Confirmation is near-universal in Reform and Reconstructionist congregations and is found in some Conservative ones; it is not an Orthodox practice. Tikkun Leil Shavuot has become near-universal across denominations."
      },
      {
        "type": "heading",
        "body": "Sources",
        "text": "Sources"
      },
      {
        "type": "paragraph",
        "body": "Torah: [Vayikra](/glossary.json#letter-V) 23:15–22; [Devarim 16:9–12](https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.16.9-12); [Bamidbar 28:26–31](https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.28.26-31).",
        "text": "Torah: Vayikra 23:15–22; Devarim 16:9–12; Bamidbar 28:26–31."
      },
      {
        "type": "paragraph",
        "body": "[Megillat Ruth](https://www.sefaria.org/Ruth).",
        "text": "Megillat Ruth."
      },
      {
        "type": "paragraph",
        "body": "[Mishnah, Bikkurim](https://www.sefaria.org/Mishnah_Bikkurim).",
        "text": "Mishnah, Bikkurim."
      },
      {
        "type": "paragraph",
        "body": "[Talmud Bavli, Pesachim 68b](https://www.sefaria.org/Pesachim.68b) — \"on Shavuot all agree that it must also be for you (lachem).\"",
        "text": "Talmud Bavli, Pesachim 68b — \"on Shavuot all agree that it must also be for you (lachem).\""
      },
      {
        "type": "paragraph",
        "body": "[Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Hilchot Yom Tov](https://www.sefaria.org/Mishneh_Torah,_Rest_on_a_Holiday).",
        "text": "Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Hilchot Yom Tov."
      },
      {
        "type": "paragraph",
        "body": "[Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 494](https://www.sefaria.org/Shulchan_Arukh,_Orach_Chayim.494).",
        "text": "Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 494."
      },
      {
        "type": "paragraph",
        "body": "[Pesachim 68b (Steinsaltz Talmud portal)](https://steinsaltz-center.org/portal/library/Talmud/Pesachim/chapter/68.b) — Steinsaltz Center.",
        "text": "Pesachim 68b (Steinsaltz Talmud portal) — Steinsaltz Center."
      },
      {
        "type": "paragraph",
        "body": "[What Is Tikkun Leil Shavuot?](https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2156/jewish/What-Is-Tikkun-Leil-Shavuot.htm) — Chabad.org.",
        "text": "What Is Tikkun Leil Shavuot? — Chabad.org."
      },
      {
        "type": "paragraph",
        "body": "[What is Confirmation and what is its connection to Shavuot?](https://reformjudaism.org/learning/answers-jewish-questions/what-confirmation-and-what-its-connection-shavuot) — ReformJudaism.org.",
        "text": "What is Confirmation and what is its connection to Shavuot? — ReformJudaism.org."
      },
      {
        "type": "paragraph",
        "body": "[Shemot (Exodus) 34:22](https://www.sefaria.org/Exodus.34.22) — Sefaria.",
        "text": "Shemot (Exodus) 34:22 — Sefaria."
      },
      {
        "type": "heading",
        "body": "Further Reading",
        "text": "Further Reading"
      },
      {
        "type": "paragraph",
        "body": "[Yitz Greenberg](/glossary.json#letter-R), The Jewish Way — Shavuot chapter.",
        "text": "Yitz Greenberg, The Jewish Way — Shavuot chapter."
      },
      {
        "type": "paragraph",
        "body": "[Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks](/glossary.json#letter-J), Covenant & Conversation: Numbers — Shavuot essays.",
        "text": "Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Covenant & Conversation: Numbers — Shavuot essays."
      }
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        "term": "Beit HaMikdash",
        "hebrew": "בֵּית הַמִּקְדָּשׁ",
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        "definition": "The Holy Temple in Jerusalem — the First destroyed in 586 BCE, the Second in 70 CE. Much of Jewish prayer and practice remembers it and looks toward its restoration.",
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        "definition": "Conservative Judaism holds Halacha as binding while empowering its Committee on Jewish Law and Standards to adapt Jewish law to modern circumstances through rabbinic enactments (takkanot) — a deliberate middle path between Orthodox and Reform approaches to Jewish law.",
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        "definition": "Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (1948–2020) served as Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and became one of the most widely read Jewish thinkers of his generation; his commentary anchors the Koren Shalem Siddur, the Field Guide's recommended first siddur for most New Jews.",
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        "term": "Kabbalah",
        "hebrew": "קַבָּלָה",
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        "definition": "The Jewish mystical tradition — literally \"that which is received\" — whose central text is the Zohar and whose distinctive teachings include the ten Sefirot and the infinite Ein Sof.",
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        "term": "Kashrut",
        "hebrew": "כַּשְׁרוּת",
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        "definition": "The system of Jewish dietary law — which foods may be eaten, how animals must be slaughtered, and the strict separation of meat and dairy.",
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        "term": "Midrash",
        "hebrew": "מִדְרָשׁ",
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        "definition": "Literally 'inquiry' — the rabbinic genre of creative biblical interpretation, filling gaps in the text, drawing out moral lessons, and reading Scripture in surprising directions.",
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        "term": "Mishnah",
        "hebrew": "מִשְׁנָה",
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        "definition": "The first great written compilation of the Oral Torah, organized by Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi around 200 CE into six orders; together with the Gemara it forms the Talmud.",
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        "term": "Pesach",
        "hebrew": "פֶּסַח",
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        "definition": "Passover — the spring festival commemorating the Exodus from Egypt, observed with the seder meal, matzah, and the removal of chametz from the home.",
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        "term": "Rabbi Yitz Greenberg",
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        "definition": "Rabbi Irving 'Yitz' Greenberg (b. 1933), a Modern Orthodox rabbi and Holocaust theologian known for the principle that no Jewish theological statement should be made that would not be credible in the presence of burning children; author of The Jewish Way.",
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        "definition": "Founded by Mordecai Kaplan, Reconstructionist Judaism understands Judaism as an evolving religious civilization rather than a fixed set of supernatural commandments, and was an early adopter of patrilineal descent and full gender egalitarianism.",
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        "term": "Reform Judaism",
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        "definition": "Reform Judaism treats Halacha as a source of values and meaning rather than binding law, emphasizing individual autonomy, ethical monotheism, and tikkun olam; it was the first movement to fully recognize patrilineal descent and ordain women as rabbis.",
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        "term": "Rut",
        "hebrew": "רוּת",
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        "definition": "The book of Ruth — the Tanakh's story of the Moabite woman who joined the Jewish people; one of the Five Megillot, read on Shavuot.",
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        "hebrew": "שָׁבוּעוֹת",
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        "definition": "The early-summer festival marking the giving of the Torah at Sinai, arriving at the end of the seven-week count from Pesach; customs include all-night study and dairy foods.",
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        "definition": "The third month of the Jewish calendar counting from Nisan, falling in late spring; Shavuot falls on the 6th of Sivan.",
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        "term": "Tanakh",
        "hebrew": "תנ״ך",
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        "definition": "The Hebrew Bible, named for the initials of its three sections: Torah (the Five Books), Nevi'im (Prophets), and Ketuvim (Writings) — twenty-four books in the traditional count.",
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        "term": "The Arizal",
        "hebrew": "האר\"י ז\"ל",
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        "definition": "Rabbi Isaac Luria (1534-1572), the towering kabbalist of 16th-century Safed whose teachings -- including tzimtzum, shevirat hakelim, and tikkun -- reshaped Jewish mysticism; he wrote almost nothing himself, and his system survives through the writings of his student Rabbi Chaim Vital.",
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      "tikkun-leil-shavuot": {
        "term": "Tikkun Leil Shavuot",
        "hebrew": "תיקון ליל שבועות",
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        "definition": "The custom of studying Torah all night on the first night of Shavuot, readying oneself to receive the Torah at daybreak as Israel did at Sinai.",
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        "term": "Torah",
        "hebrew": "תּוֹרָה",
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        "definition": "The Five Books of Moses — the scroll at the center of Jewish life — and, more broadly, the whole of Jewish teaching. 'Learning Torah' can mean anything from Chumash to Talmud.",
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      "vayikra": {
        "term": "Vayikra",
        "hebrew": "ויקרא",
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        "definition": "The Book of Leviticus, third of the Five Books of the Torah, named for its opening word, 'And He called'; its concerns are the sanctuary, the offerings, and holiness.",
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      "yosef-karo": {
        "term": "Yosef Karo",
        "hebrew": "יוסף קארו",
        "translit": null,
        "definition": "Rabbi Yosef Karo (1488–1575), a Spanish exile who settled in Safed, authored the Shulchan Aruch (1565), the code of Jewish law that remains authoritative in Orthodox and, with adaptation, Conservative practice today.",
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      "zohar": {
        "term": "Zohar",
        "hebrew": "זוהר",
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        "definition": "The central work of Kabbalah — a mystical commentary on the Torah that emerged in 13th-century Spain and is traditionally attributed to the 2nd-century sage Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai.",
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      "bikkurim": {
        "term": "bikkurim",
        "hebrew": "בִּכּוּרִים",
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        "definition": "First fruits — the offering of the season's earliest produce brought to the Temple on Shavuot in ancient times.",
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      },
      "chalav": {
        "term": "chalav",
        "hebrew": "חָלָב",
        "translit": null,
        "definition": "Dairy — one of the three categories of food in kashrut, kept strictly separate from meat (basar).",
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      "gematria": {
        "term": "gematria",
        "hebrew": "גִּימַטְרִיָּה",
        "translit": null,
        "definition": "The traditional system that assigns each Hebrew letter a numerical value, letting words be compared and interpreted through their sums.",
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      },
      "kibbutz": {
        "term": "kibbutz",
        "hebrew": "קִבּוּץ",
        "translit": null,
        "definition": "A collective agricultural community in Israel — an institution of modern Zionism that shaped the young country's culture, economy, and holiday celebrations.",
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      },
      "kosher": {
        "term": "kosher",
        "hebrew": "כָּשֵׁר",
        "translit": null,
        "definition": "Fit or proper according to Jewish law — said mostly of food, but equally of a Torah scroll, a sukkah, or anything else that meets halachic requirements.",
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      },
      "mikra-bikkurim": {
        "term": "mikra bikkurim",
        "hebrew": "מִקְרָא בִכּוּרִים",
        "translit": null,
        "definition": "The declaration beginning 'My father was a wandering Aramean' (Devarim 26) recited by farmers bringing their first fruits to the Temple; it later became the backbone of the Passover Haggadah.",
        "moreSlug": null
      },
      "mitzvah": {
        "term": "mitzvah",
        "hebrew": "מִצְוָה",
        "translit": null,
        "definition": "A commandment — one of the Torah's 613 divine instructions, and by extension any religious duty or good deed. The plural is mitzvot.",
        "moreSlug": "essentials-essential-facts-the-613-mitzvot"
      },
      "shiur": {
        "term": "shiur",
        "hebrew": "שיעור",
        "translit": null,
        "definition": "A Torah class or lesson (plural shiurim), from a word meaning 'measure' or 'portion.' Attending a weekly shiur is one of the most common ways Jews learn together.",
        "moreSlug": null
      },
      "shivat-haminim": {
        "term": "shivat haminim",
        "hebrew": "שבעת המינים",
        "translit": null,
        "definition": "The seven species — wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives, and dates — with which the Torah praises the Land of Israel (Devarim 8:8). They are traditionally eaten on Tu BiShvat.",
        "moreSlug": null
      },
      "zeman-matan-torateinu": {
        "term": "zeman matan Torateinu",
        "hebrew": "זמן מתן תורתנו",
        "translit": null,
        "definition": "'The season of the giving of our Torah' — the liturgy's name for Shavuot, marking the revelation at Sinai.",
        "moreSlug": null
      }
    }
  },
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    {
      "rel": "parent",
      "title": "Sacred Time",
      "href": "/sections/sacred-time.json"
    },
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      "href": "/articles/holidays-yamim-noraim-rosh-hashanah.json"
    },
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      "href": "/articles/holidays-yamim-noraim-yom-kippur.json"
    },
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      "href": "/articles/holidays-shalosh-regalim-sukkot.json"
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}