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Ruth
April 25, 2002
Shavuot is not only, or not primarily, the celebration of the day on which the Torah was given to the Jewish people, but the celebration of the first ripened fruits. (Simchas Torah is the day when we celebrate the Torah), and however important it may be, Shavuot is a holiday that addresses the Jewish people as people, as a mass, and not as individuals, and thus I don't agree to call it most significant day of the Jewish calendar. To my mind, Yom Kippur and Pesach are of far greater importance to the Jewish individual in his or her identity of being a Jew. Nevertheless - chag Shavuot sameach (however happy it can be, when looking towards the Near East)
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