
The Torah’s Mysterious Name for Shavuos
Why does the Torah call Shavuos “Yom Habikkurim”? Matan Friedman explores the two loaves, the journey from Pesach and the personal growth at the heart of…
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Matan Friedman is a Kemp Mill native and a Yeshiva University graduate in Mathematical Economics and Biology. His Torah teaching and writing explore Talmud, halacha and Jewish thought, with recorded shiurim available through YUTorah. At the time of this print essay, he was serving as assistant rabbi at The Roslyn Synagogue and pursuing semicha at RIETS.
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