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/