Shavuot: A Holiday of Process
Shav
uot, the Festival of Weeks, is celebrated at the end of this week. It is an unusual holiday in the Jewish calendar. Every other holiday has a date, but Shavuot does not. It is celebrated 50 days after we start celebrating Passover. But, since the number of days in the Hebrew month is subject to change, the holiday of Shavuot could, in theory, fall on one of at least three different dates. For us, this has no practical implication since for the past approximately 1,700 years, the Hebrew calendar and the number of days per month has been made permanent. But, in principle, as is reflected in the Bible and in the literature of Chazal (the Sages), Shavuot is a “wandering” holiday with no specific date.
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