3rd Grade Boys

The Names of Shavuos

 THE 5 NAMES OF
SHAVUOS
(1) Shavuot is called Shavuot because
it means “weeks” and when the Jews
left Egypt we waited seven weeks. We
counted the days of the Omer until
the day we would be worthy for the
Torah. We also count sefirah these
days for seven weeks starting from
the night after Pesach. Then we
celebrate Shavuot-weeks.

(2) Shavuot means promises. When

Hashem gave the Torah to the Jewish,
People they promised-‫ ְׁש בּוָע ה‬to follow
it and remain loyal to him. In return
Hashem made an oath-‫ ְׁש בּוָע ה‬that he
would love us and never exchange us
for any other people.

This teaches us an important lesson.

We know how serious a promise is,
it’s so important and we know we
EITAN should not break one. We should also
be really happy that Hashem’s
PAPIASHVILI promise is that strong.
 Shavous is also known as Chag
Habikurim because you start bringing
bikurim on Shavous.
A farmer might say that he made the
produce grow because he watered
the trees and plants and took away
the weeds so it could grow. Is it true
that he did those things, did he
actually make the rain fall? Did he
make the sun shine? No, of course
not! Hashem made the rain fall and
the sun shine.
And the lesson for us is that we
should thank Hashem and not say
CHAG
that we did all the work but say we
did some and Hashem did the rest. HABIKURIM
There are 3 Mitzvos of Bikurim ‫חג הבכורים‬
1) Bring the first fruits of your shivas
haminim to the Beis Hamikdash.
2) A kohen is not allowed to eat
bikurim outside of Yerushalayim. MENDEL
3) Thank Hashem with words while
bringing bikurim. EMLEN
The day of Shavuot is also called
Z’man Matan Torah. It is called that
name because when the Yidden were
traveling through the desert they
waited 49 days to receive the Torah.
The day that they got the Torah
happened to be the day of Shavuot.

On the day of the giving of the Torah,

Hashem tried to tell the Yidden the
Ten Commandments, but after the
Z'MAN second commandment, so many
Yidden passed away from His holy
voice that He told Moshe to hear the
MATAN commandments from Him and then
tell them the rest of the
TORASEINU commandments. We remember this
by staying up all night learning Torah,
‫זמן מתן תורתינו‬ having a milk meal and (one hour
later) a meat meal, and reading the
Ten Commandments that Hashem
gave to us (the Yidden). I learned
from this that if I stay up all night on
ZEV GITLER Shavuot it might make the biggest
impact and make Moshiach come!
 This is because Shavuos happens
CHAG during the same time of year when
everything is ready to be harvested.
HAKATZIR Mostly the wheat is harvested during
this time. In the Beis haMikdash they
would bring “Shtei haLechem” which
‫חג הקציר‬ was two loaves of wheat bread. This
was to say thank you to Hashem for
the wheat that grew.

What do we do to remember this?

Since Shavuos is connected to the

harvest season, it teaches us an
important lesson, which is to say
Thank You to Hashem. We give extra
‫ צדקה‬to the poor. So when the
farmers harvest the wheat they have
so much wheat. So to give back to
Hashem they give some wheat to the
YISSACHAR poor to pay back to Hashem.

DOV LEVITIN

Atzeres (‫ )עצרת‬means to "stop" or ATZERES

"finish".

#1 We "stop" working (doing

‫עצרת‬
melacha) on ‫עצרת‬.

#2 After we finish counting the ‫עומר‬

we "stop" to celebrate. We have the
‫ עומר‬and then ‫עצרת‬, Shavuos.

#3 The giving of the Torah was the

end "finishing" of going out of
Mitzrayim

What this means to me is that it's

important to stop and celebrate
Mitzvot and special things that
happen.
NEHEMIAH
DARAB
Artwork from the 3rd grade boys depicting the
harvest season, ‫חג הקציר‬.