ALTERNATE SIDE OF THE STREET PARKING SUSPENDED DUE TO JEWISH HOLIDAY: REJOICE

Parking suspended today. Things are  back to normal tomorrow until Monday, which is Memorial Day.

The following is from Wikipedia:

Shavuot, sometimes pronounced Shavuos (Hebrew: שבועות; Israeli Heb. [ʃa·vu·’ʕot]; Ashkenazi [ʃə·’vu·əs]; "[Feast of] Weeks"), is a Jewish holiday that occurs on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan, corresponding to late May or early June. It marks the conclusion of the Counting of the Omer and the day the Torah was given at Mount Sinai. It is one of the shalosh regalim, the three Biblical pilgrimage festivals mandated by the Torah.

The occurrence of Shavuot is directly linked to the date of Passover. The Torah mandates the seven-week Counting of the Omer,
beginning on the second day of Passover and culminating after seven
weeks, Shavuot. This counting of days and weeks expresses anticipation
and desire for the Giving of the Torah. At Passover, the Jewish people
were freed from being slaves to Pharaoh; at Shavuot they accepted the Torah and became a nation committed to serving God.

Shavuot has many aspects and as a consequence is called by several names. In the Torah it is called Feast of Weeks (Hebrew: חג השבועות, Hag ha-Shavuot, Exodus 34:22, Deuteronomy 16:10); Festival of Reaping (Hebrew: חג הקציר, Hag ha-Katsir, Ex. 23:16), and Day of the First Fruits (Hebrew יום הבכורים, Yom ha-Bikkurim, Numbers 28:26). The Mishnah and Talmud refer to Shavuot as Atzeret
(Hebrew: עצרת, a solemn assembly), as it provides closure for the
festival activities during and following the holiday of Passover. Since
Shavuot occurs 50 days after Passover, Christians gave it the name Pentecost (πεντηκόστη, "fiftieth [day]"). However, the actual Christian commemoration of Pentecost occurs on the seventh Sunday after Easter.

In the Land of Israel and among Reform and Karaite Jews, Shavuot is celebrated for one day. In the Jewish diaspora outside Israel, the holiday is celebrated for two days, on the sixth and seventh days of Sivan.

One thought on “ALTERNATE SIDE OF THE STREET PARKING SUSPENDED DUE TO JEWISH HOLIDAY: REJOICE”

  1. OTBKB….if my beloved mother, the Queen of Kosher,was still “with us” and could, by some miracle,figure out how to use a computer so she might access your BLOG, she would thank you for refreshing our collective memory as to the signifigance of shavuos…then she would give you a big hug and invite you and your entire family to Shabbas dinner

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