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When Do You Celebrate Shavuot?

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Kevin in Surveys (Closed).
Updated on June 9, 2010

According to our survey of 158 respondents, 43% favored a non-traditional celebration of Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks, citing the date as determined according to the Sadducean/Boethusian/Karaite reckoning, which always places Shavuot on the “Sunday” 50 days after the seventh-day Shabbat (Saturday) during the Feast of Unleavened Bread. However, though this option constituted the majority [...]

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