Shavuot

Culture of origin: Jewish · Cultural

Holiday sources: Iran · Israel · Judaism

Shavuot, "Weeks", is one of the three biblical pilgrimage festivals, on 6 Sivan. It comes seven weeks after Passover, at the end of the Counting of the Omer, and in the Bible marks the wheat harvest; rabbinic tradition holds that the Ten Commandments were given at Mount Sinai on this date. It lasts one day in Israel and two in the diaspora.