Shavuot or Shovuos, in Ashkenazi usage; Shavuʿoth in Sephardi and Mizrahi Hebrew (Hebrew: שָׁבוּעוֹת, lit. “Weeks”), is known as the Jewish Feast of Weeks (in English) that is celebrated seven weeks after Pesach. Originally it was the feast at which the “first-fruits” of the harvest …