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Shavuot

The giving of the Torah is marked with dairy food: cheesecake, blintzes and cheese pastries.

Girls enjoy themselves at a Bikurim celebration during Shavuot at Kibbutz Nachshon. ילדות בפסטיבל ביכורים בקיבוץ נחשון 05/25/1958
Photo: https://www.flickr.com/people/69061470@N05, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What is eaten for Shavuot

Shavuot celebrates the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai and the wheat harvest of ancient Israel. It is the dairy festival of the Jewish year. One explanation is that the Torah is likened to milk and honey. Another is that the people, newly given the dietary laws, had no kosher meat ready. Ashkenazi tables have cheesecake and cheese blintzes. Sephardi families bake cheese-filled pastries such as bourekas. Many people stay up all night studying, with coffee and cake to help.

The dishes

CheesecakeThe best-known Shavuot dessert.KugelA dairy noodle kugel is common for the festival.

Also part of it, and being written: Blintz (Thin pancakes rolled round sweet cheese.), Bourekas (Cheese-filled pastries on Sephardi tables.).

More dishes made for Shavuot

Muhallebiمهلبی 🇮🇷 Iran and 5 moreA smooth milk pudding thickened with rice flour or starch, served cold Sweet or dessert
About this page

Written by the Thali desk with AI assistance. Background: "Shavuot" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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