The Rabbis tell us that on the morning of the day we’d receive the Torah, we overslept. We didn’t wake up, and Moses had to wake us. To atone for that, we don’t even go to sleep, now we’re reliving ...

Despite the plethora of high-level Torah-lectures on the holiday, I am inclined these days to study on Shavuot with my husband or friends.

These two, with Sukkot, the “Feast of Booths,” were the three pilgrimage festivals of ancient Judaism. The Book of Exodus ...