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A Personal Invite... We would love to see you!
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You are cordially invited to join for a delightful Shavuot dairy feast, including Pizza, cheesecake, blintzes, ice cream, and more!
The meal will take place on both days of Shavuot, Wednesday & Thursday, June 8 & 9, 2011 at 12:30 PM following services at 25 N State Street , Newtown, PA 18940 USA.
BRING YOUR CHILDREN to hear the 10 commandments being read from the Torah at 10:45 AM. Each child will be rewarded with their own ice cream cone!
If you would like to be a Shavuot Kiddush sponsor for $50 please click here.
Don't forget! Yizkor service is on Thursday at 11:15AM.
Find the complete holiday schedule below.
| Tuesday, June 7: |
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| Candle lighting: |
8:09pm |
| Mincha: |
8:10pm |
| Maariv: |
9:10pm |
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All Night Learning:
Join us for an all night study session on different subjects! Plenty of coffee and snacks will be served!
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12:00am – 4:00am |
| Wednesday, June 8: |
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| Shacharit: |
9:30am |
Reading of 10 Commandments
Ice Cream for the Kids! |
10:45am |
| Pizza Dairy Kiddush following the service! |
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| Mincha: |
8:10pm |
| Candle lighting: |
After 9:17pm |
| Maariv: |
9:10pm |
| Thursday, June 9: |
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| Shacharit: |
9:30am |
| Yizkor: |
11:15am |
| Pizza Dairy Kiddush following the service! |
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| Mincha/Maariv: |
8:00pm |
| Yom Tov Ends: |
9:17pm |
Hope to see you there!
Have a wonderful Yom Tov!
Rabbi Aryeh & Rosie Weinstein
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What is Shavuot?
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Why Dairy?
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Shavuot, celebrated this year June 7-9, 20110, marks the anniversary of the day when we received the Torah at Mount Sinai. It is the second of the three major festivals (Passover being the first, and Sukkot the third), occurring exactly fifty days after the second day of Passover.
This is a biblical holiday complete with special prayers, holiday candle lighting and kiddush. During the course of the holiday we don't go to work, drive, write or switch on or off electric devices. We are permitted to cook and to carry outdoors.
The word "Shavuot" means "weeks"; it marks the completion of the seven-week counting period between Passover and Shavuot. During these seven weeks, the Jewish people cleansed themselves of the scars of Egyptian slavery and became a holy nation, ready to enter into an eternal covenant with G‑d with the giving of the Torah. |
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1. On the holiday of Shavuot, a two-loaf bread offering was brought in the Temple. To commemorate this, we eat two meals on Shavuot — first a dairy meal, and then, after a short interruption, we eat the traditional holiday meat-meal.
2. With the giving of the Torah the Jews now became obligated to observe the laws of Kosher. As the Torah was given on Shabbat no cattle could be slaughtered nor could utensils be koshered, and thus on that day they ate dairy. The Torah is likened to nourishing milk.
3. Also, the Hebrew word for milk is "chalav." When the numerical value of each of the letters in the word chalav are added together - 8, 30, 2 - the total is forty. Forty is the number of days Moses spent on Mount Sinai when receiving the Torah.
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