The Ten Commandments
Shavuot celebrates the anniversary of this prophet receiving the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai.
Who is Moses?
It is a universal Jewish custom to eat these types of foods on Shavuot.
What are dairy foods?
This biblical book, which tells a story of friendship and conversion, is read in synagogues on Shavuot.
What is the Book of Ruth (Megillat Rut)?
Shavuot is celebrated exactly this many days after the first Passover Seder.
What is 50 days?
The name "Shavuot" literally translates to this English word in recognition of the time spent counting the Omer.
What is "Weeks"?
This commandment, the fifth one, promises that you will live a long time if you respect your father and mother.
What is "Honor your father and mother"?
The Torah is often compared to these two sweet and nourishing substances.
What are milk and honey?
This woman was Ruth's mother-in-law, whom Ruth refused to leave after they were both widowed.
Who is Naomi?
This is the number of weeks counted during the Omer period leading up to Shavuot.
What is seven weeks?
Tradition says that Mount Sinai was miraculously covered in these when the Torah was given.
What are flowers (or greenery)?
When the Israelites were at the foot of Mount Sinai, they made this famous declaration, meaning "We will do and we will hear."
What is "Na’aseh v’nishma"?
This is the numerical value (gematria) of the Hebrew word for milk, Chalav.
What is 40?
Ruth eventually married this man, a relative of Naomi, who acted as a "kinsman-redeemer"
Who is Boaz?
In the Diaspora, Shavuot is celebrated for two days, but it only lasts for this many days in Israel.
What is one day?
This name for Shavuot refers to it as the "Time of the Giving of our Torah".
What is Zeman Matan Torateinu?
This commandment discusses what we think rather than what we do, warning us not to really want things that belong to others.
What is "Do not covet"?
One tradition says the Israelites ate dairy because they did not have enough time to prepare this type of meat properly after receiving the Torah.
What is kosher meat (or meat slaughtered via shechita)?
Ruth is the great-grandmother of this famous Jewish King, who was born and died on Shavuot.
Who is King David?
This is the specific date on the Hebrew calendar when Shavuot begins.
What is the 6th of Sivan?
This is the custom of staying up the entire night of Shavuot to study Torah.
What is Tikkun Leil Shavuot?
According to one Midrash, God had to use this extreme method to get the Israelites to accept the Torah at Sinai.
What is holding the mountain over their heads?
This alternative name for Mount Sinai sounds similar to the Hebrew word for cheese, Gevina.
What is Har HaGav'nunim?
Ruth's famous declaration of loyalty to Naomi included the phrase: "Your people will be my people, and..."
"...your God [will be] my God."
The word "Pentecost," a Greek name for Shavuot, literally translates to this number.
What is fifty?
Since 1967, it has become a tradition for thousands of people to walk to this holy site in Jerusalem on Shavuot morning.
What is the Western Wall (Kotel)?