Shavuot

Handmade Gold & Silver Judaica for Shavuot

Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks, falls fifty days after Passover (seven weeks plus one day, the period counted aloud in the Omer). The festival commemorates the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai, an event recalled through Torah study, the reading of the Book of Ruth (whose conversion narrative ties to the acceptance of the Torah by the Jewish people), and the traditional consumption of dairy foods (variously explained as recalling the "land flowing with milk and honey," the time required to learn the kosher laws before eating meat, or simply the springtime abundance of dairy).

Our Shavuot collection is built around the festival's central themes. Torah-themed Judaica includes sterling silver pendants and rings featuring the Tablets of the Law (luchot), the Hebrew letters aleph and lamed combined as in the first word of the Ten Commandments ("Anochi"), and pendants engraved with verses from Exodus 20. Ruth megillah scrolls (the only complete Book of the Bible read on Shavuot) are produced in custom calligraphy by Israeli soferim and housed in matching cases.

Dairy-themed Judaica forms a smaller but distinctive sub-section: small sterling silver cheese plates, honey jars and dippers, miniature cream pitchers, and matched dairy serving sets often used at the Shavuot table. Hebrew-inscribed Shavuot pendants for synagogue-goers and Torah-study participants (engraved with "Matan Torah" or the verse from Exodus declaring "All that the Lord has spoken, we will do") are popular for the festival. Every piece is made to order or selected from inventory in our Jerusalem workshop and ships worldwide; orders for Shavuot-specific items should be placed by mid-April for delivery before the festival.