Reading of the Ten Commandments.
All men, women and children should go to the synagogue to hear the
reading of the Ten Commandments.
The youngest of children to the reading of the Ten Commandments in the
synagogue on Shavuot. This is in commemoration of the Jewish people
declaring: "Our children are our guarantors [that we will keep the
Torah]". This was the only guarantee acceptable to G-d (Midrash).
King David passed away on Shavuot.
So did the father of the Chassidic movement, Rabbi Yisroel Baal Shem Tov.
also see:
Chassidus
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| It is customary to
eat dairy foods on Shavuot, commemorating the fact that upon
receiving the Torah and the laws of Kashrut, the Jewish people could
not cook meat in their pots which had yet to be rendered Kosher.
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