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What We Can Learn from Ruth and Naomi about Mental Health
Shavuot offers a glimpse at how others in our tradition faced unimaginable and unremitting losses – and were sometimes helped to prevail. There are powerful lessons for us within the story of Naomi and her daughter-in-law Ruth.
(the) Omer
Hebrew Spelling
הָעֹמֶר
The 49-day period that begins on the second night of Passover and ends on Shavuot.
Shavuot
Hebrew Spelling
שָׁבוּעוֹת
Alternate Spelling
Shavuos
"Weeks;" festival that commemorates the giving of the Torah to Moses atop Mt. Sinai.
Yizkor
Hebrew Spelling
יִזְכֹּר
"Remember;" memorial service held on Yom Kippur and on the last day of Pesach, Shavout, and Sukkot.