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A Jewish holiday that occurs in the spring, a harvest festival, also commemorating the anniversary of the giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses and the Israelites at Mount Sinai. quotations examples
Major Jewish holidays such as Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Simchat Torah, Succoth, Chanukah, Passover and Shavuot have been celebrated with Hebrew prayers and songs.
1971, United States Congress: Senate: Foreign Relations, Public Financing of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty
On the first day of Shavuot the Ten Commandments were explained to the people homiletically in the vernacular.
1975, Israel Zinberg, Old Yiddish Literature from Its Origins to the Haskalah Period