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    Shavuot

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    Shavuot celebrates the giving of all the Torah laws, including the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai after the Exodus.

    Shavuot means weeks in Hebrew.

    It is traditional to eat a dairy meal that symbolises the land of milk and honey.

    Photograph of the Shavuot service in Buchenwald just after liberation 1945.
    Shavuot service in Buchenwald just after liberation 1945.
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