Tagged Mount Sinai

Mount Sinai’s true location may surprise us
May 17, 2018 / Rabbi Yehuda Ceitlin, Chabad Tucson
Rabbi Yehuda Ceitlin (Britta Van Vranken)

Search online for “Mount Sinai” and Google Maps will swiftly point you to a marker in Jabal Mousa, Arabic for Mount Moses, located in the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. Consult with a biblical scholar or geographer and you will hear about other locations such as… Read more »

Op-Ed: If Passover is the question, Shavuot is the answer
May 22, 2012 / Adin Steinsaltz, JTA

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Unlike other Jewish holidays, the Torah does not specify a date for Shavuot; it is celebrated on the 50th day (seven weeks) after Passover. We moderns celebrate Shavuot on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan; in ancient times, when the first day of… Read more »