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Shavuot

Hebrew

the holiday marking the giving of the Torah at Sinai

Shavuot marks the giving of the Torah at Sinai, counted as seven weeks after Passover. The custom is to stay up all night studying, called a tikkun leil Shavuot, and to eat dairy, cheesecake and blintzes being the usual suspects. It gets less attention than the holidays with a meal and a story, which is a little unfair given what it's actually commemorating.