First Fruits and Final Chances
What can we learn from the script we’re asked to say on Shavuot about the Jewish relationship to the Land?
(Read in Hebrew here. First published on the Times of Israel)
Thousands of years ago this time of year, Hebrews prepared baskets to carry their first fruits to Jerusalem for the holiday we now call Shavuot (known as the Feast of Weeks because it occurs seven weeks after Passover). In those day…