The Jewish festival you’ve never heard of – and it involves ice-cream |
The Jewish festival you’ve never heard of – and it involves ice-cream
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This weekend, the Jewish community will finish celebrating the two-day festival of Shavuot. Out of all the Jewish festivals, it is probably the least well known, despite being one of the most significant and one that is mentioned in the Torah.
Taking place seven weeks after Passover, Shavuot marks both the harvest season and the giving of the Torah – the first five books of the Bible – to the Jewish people at Mount Sinai thousands of years ago. It is also, somewhat inconveniently for the lactose intolerant, the great Jewish dairy festival.
According to Jewish tradition, when the Torah was first given, the Jewish people had not yet fully........