Shavuot

Shavout is one of the Jewish holidays. Like Passover and Sukkot Shavout is one of the Three Pilgrimage Festivals (Shalosh Regalim),
in this holidays the jewish people walked to Jerusalem.
Shavout occurs on the sixth of Sivan.

The name Shavout

The holiday Shavuot came after Counting the Omer. The Torah ordered to count to be seven weeks after ending Passover. The meaning Shavout in Hebrew is Weeks.
The history
In the past, more than 3300 years back, in Saturday, on the sixth of Sivan, after the jewish people escaped from Egypt, Hashem said to them, go to mountain Sinai (see jewish history) and get the Torah, forty nine days they went to Mountain Sinai and in the fifty day Hashem gave them the Torah.
On the first day of Sivan, the Jewish people arrived to Mountain Sinai and parked next to the mountain, In the second day of Sivan Moshe went up to the sky and talk with Hashem, Hashem promised Moshe that they would be his chosen people.
On the third day of Sivan, Hashem ordered the Israeli people to prepare them self to receive the Torah, they mustn't come at the woman, and they had to wash their clothes and bathe in a Mikveh, they mustn't touch the mountain and mustn't climb the mountain. Those were Hashem words.

On the sixth of Sivan, Moshe went up to the sky to get the Torah, the vision was beautiful, the lights and the sounds were scary but exciting, smoke appeared in the mountain and Hashem talk to the Jewish people. And He gave us the Torah.
The customs of Shavout
In the holiday Shavout we eat dairy products and don't sleep at night. All during the night we say the Tikon Shavout pray. The Tikon Shavout is many parts of the Tora, Nevihim , Ctovim, the three parts of the bible, we also read Mishnah Talmud, Midrash Rabbah and more Jewish books.

We also read Megilat Rot – part of the Ctovim (look down and see explanation)

David the king died

David the king of Israel died in Shavout that occurred on Saturday.
David the king of Israel asked to know when he will pass away. Hasem said to him that he will die on Saturday. Every Saturday David set down to learn Torah all day in aim to be saved from the death angle (the Torah saves from the death angle).
on one Saturday (the time when David needed to pass away), the dead angle came to "take him" ,but David was studying Torah, so death angle did a trick on him, he made a noise in the garden and David went down to check it and fell on a broken step, then he stopped studying and the Angel of Death "took" him.

Every Shavout we read the Thilim book that king David engraves.

Megilat Rot

We read Megilat Rot in Shavout because of two reasons:
• Megilat Rot took place during the summer in Sivan.
• Megilat Rot talks about the great grandmother of the king David, and in Shavout David passed away.
The Megila talks about normal family, father, mother, and two boys that are living in Israel. A grate hunger was in Israel in those days so they went to Moav country (where Jordan is now).
The boys married two foreign women from Moav Rot and Orpa. Suddenly the father and his boys died and the mother (Neomi) and her two brides were left alone, one of them turn around to her family (orpa) and one of them stay with Neomi (Rot). Rot and Neomi went to Jerusalem, Rot met Boaz (he is from Neomi's family) and they got married. She gave birth to a son and named him Oved. he was the grandfather of David. In fact, Rot is the great grandmother of David.+