Pronounced: shah-voo-OTE (oo as in boot), also shah-VOO-us, Origin: Hebrew, the holiday celebrating the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai, falls in the Hebrew month Sivan, which usually coincides with May or June.
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The decisions I make in response to my Jewish inheritance shape my Jewishness more than the specific circumstances into which I was born.
