Reading Material to print for Shavuos (or to read now)
Eruv Tavshilin
By Rabbi Yonason Sacks
https://www.torahweb.org/torah/2009/moadim/rsac_shavuos.html
Shavuos Night
Sleepless on Shavuot
By Rabbi Dr Moshe Sokolow
https://www.jewishideasdaily.com/1138/features/sleepless-on-shavuot/
Tracing the History of Shavuos Night Learning
By Eliezer Brodt
https://seforimblog.com/2018/05/tracing-history-of-shavuos-nig/
Shavuos
By Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin
https://mishpacha.com/shavuos/
The Nightly Cry, the Song of Torah
By Yaakov S. Weinstein
https://thelehrhaus.com/scholarship/the-nightly-cry-the-song-of-torah/
Matan Torah
You Can Be a Kohein and a King
By Rabbi Zvi Sobolofsky
https://www.torahweb.org/torah/2007/parsha/rsob_bamidbar.html
Not Just Another Joe
By Rabbi Yissocher Frand
https://torah.org/torah-portion/ravfrand-5761-shavuos/
Shavuot and the Golden Calf
By Harav Aharon Lichtenstein
https://etzion.org.il/en/holidays/shavuot/shavuot-and-golden-calf
Shavuot: Nexus between Man and God
By Rabbi Ahron Lopiansky
https://www.aish.com/h/sh/t/48970941.html?s=authorart
The Four Stages of Ma'amad Har Sinai
By Rabbi Menachem Leibtag
https://tanach.org/shmot/yitro.doc
The Transmission of Torah MiSinai
By Mrs. Rivka Kahan
https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/734842/mrs-rivka-kahan/the-transmission-of-torah-misinai/
Honor Your Parents: The Fulcrum of the Ten Commandments
By Rabbi Michael Rosensweig
https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/836374/rabbi-michael-rosensweig-rabbi-itamar-rosensweig/honor-your-parents-the-fulcrum-of-the-ten-commandments/
On Mikva and Matan Torah: Observations from Witnessing the Conversion Process
By Mrs. Shoshana Schechter
http://download.yutorah.org/2017/1053/Shavuot_To-Go_-_5777_Mrs_Schechter.pdf
Matan Torah: What Was Revealed to Moshe at Sinai?
By Rabbi Aryeh Leibowitz
https://hakirah.org/Vol32Leibowitz.pdf
Shavuos and the Harvest
The Meaning of Shavuot and its Unique Offering
By Rav Yoel BinNun
https://www.hatanakh.com/sites/herzog/files/herzog/The%20Meaning%20of%20Shavuot%20and%20its%20Unique%20Offering%20_%20vbm%20haretzion.pdf
Harvest Festival or Matan Torah? Shavuos As Our Anniversary
By Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer
https://iyun.org.il/en/sedersheni/shavuos-and-the-jewish-anniversary/
The Sacrifices of Shavuot: Shtei ha-Lechem and Kevasim
By Rav Moshe Taragin
https://www.etzion.org.il/en/holidays/shavuot/sacrifices-shavuot-shtei-ha-lechem-and-kevasim
A Double Celebration
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
https://www.rabbisacks.org/archive/double-celebration-thought-shavuot/
Tefillos of Shavuos
All the Right Notes: The Two Trops for the Ten Commandments
By Dov Gertler
https://mishpacha.com/all-the-right-notes-the-two-trops-for-the-ten-commandments/
The Marriage of Israel and the Holy One, Blessed Be He
By Rav Mosheh Lichtenstein
https://www.hatanakh.com/sites/herzog/files/herzog/pdf._24.pdf
The Custom of Azharot on Shavous
By R Eliezer Brodt
https://seforimblog.com/2007/05/custom-of-azharot-on-shavous/
Akdamut: History, Folklore, and Meaning
By Jeffrey Hoffman
http://blogs.yu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2012/09/Akdamus-hoffman.pdf
Yatziv Pitgam, One of Our Last Aramaic Piyyutim
By Dr. Lawrence H. Schiffman
http://download.yutorah.org/2012/1053/Shavuot_To-Go_-_5771_Dr_Schiffman.pdf
Ruth
Redemption in Megillat Ruth
By Rabbi Yaakov Medan
https://www.hatanakh.com/sites/herzog/files/herzog/Redemption%20in%20Megillat%20Ruth%20_%20vbm%20haretzion.pdf
The Days of the Judging of the Judges
By Dr. Yael Ziegler
https://www.hatanakh.com/sites/herzog/files/herzog/5.pdf
From the Goren to Home Again
By Shani Taragin
https://mizrachi.org/hamizrachi/from-the-goren-to-home-again/
Minhagim of Shavuos
Flowers and Trees in Shul on Shavuot
By Rabbi Ezra Schwartz
http://download.yutorah.org/2017/1053/Shavuot_To-Go_-_5777_Rabbi_Schwartz.pdf
Blessed Are the Cheesemakers: In Search of Ancient Roots of Dairy on Shavuot
By Rabbi Dr. Aton Holzer
https://hakirah.org/Vol30Holzer.pdf
Crossing the Line: Shavuos and the International Dateline
https://derher.org/wp-content/uploads/106-sivan-5781-6.pdf
History and Shavuos
The Shavuos Get
By Rabbi Gil Student
https://www.torahmusings.com/2010/05/shavuos-get/
On the Ger Tzedek of Vilnius
By Yosef Vilner
https://seforimblog.com/2022/07/on-the-ger-tzedek-of-vilnius/
On the "bikkurim" festivities in the early Zionist period
By Rabbi Moshe Bloom
https://en.toraland.org.il/beit-midrash/articles/around-the-jewish-year/shavuot/the-bikkurim-festival-at-agricultural-settlements-in-the-early-zionist-period/
What’s the Truth about … King David’s Tomb?
By Rabbi Dr. Zivitofsky
https://jewishaction.com/jewish-world/israel/whats_the_truth_about_king_davids_tomb/
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