cellio | Shavuot

Tonight/tomorrow is Shavuot, the oft-neglected third festival. (Pesach and Sukkot last a week, so they're harder to miss.) Shavuot is about the revelation of the torah at Mount Sinai or, more generally, Israel accepting the covenant. So it has personal significance.

Late-night torah study (tikkun leil shavuot) begins at my congregation at 10:00. It'll probably go until about 2:00, at which point I'll either go home (probably) or walk over to Kollel to see what they're doing. Going into Shavuot from a work day makes staying up all night hard, so I probably won't go to Kollel. We'll see. Next year we do this on a Sunday night, which is easier.

Dairy meals are customary. Tonight will be fish (to be determined -- I'm picking it up on the way home), salad of tomato/onion/mozzerella, some veggie, cheesecake, maybe frozen yogurt (which I will pick up when I stop for the fish). I cheated this year and bought the cheesecake, because I didn't know until it was too late that I would have last night free. Tomorrow lunch I'll have either kugel or blintzes, a salad, and more of the desserts. I can decide on the food at the last minute because cooking on Yom Tov is permitted, unlike on Shabbat. I just have to use a pre-existing flame, but that's not a problem. Dani will be working (he doesn't do holidays the way I do), so it'll be just me for lunch unless I get invited elsewhere. So I'm incredibly flexible on this.

Chag sameach to those it applies to.

Shavuot

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