RABBI STEPHEN EPSTEIN
רבי שמואל בן-יהושע
A MODERN CONSERVATIVE RABBI
Rabbi at Temple Sholom of Ontario
Serving San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, CA and all of Southern California
Shavuot I Shacharit 5786
Fri, May 22
|Temple Sholom of Ontario
Festival of Weeks ⛰️🌸 Shavuot for Hebrew Year 5786 begins in the Diaspora at sundown on Thursday, 21 May 2026 and ends at nightfall on Saturday, 23 May 2026.
Time & Location
May 22, 2026, 9:30 AM – 12:15 PM PDT
Temple Sholom of Ontario, 963 W 6th St, Ontario, CA 91762, USA
About the event
The festival of Shavuot (or Shavuos, in Ashkenazi usage; Shabhuʿoth in Classical and Mizrahi Hebrew Hebrew: שבועות, lit. “Weeks”) is a Jewish holiday that occurs on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan (late May or early June). Shavuot commemorates the anniversary of the day G-d gave the Torah to the entire Israelite nation assembled at Mount Sinai, although the association between the giving of the Torah (Matan Torah) and Shavuot is not explicit in the Biblical text. The holiday is one of the Shalosh Regalim, the three Biblical pilgrimage festivals. It marks the conclusion of the Counting of the Omer.
Shavuot I / שָׁבוּעוֹת א׳
Friday,22 May 2026/6 Sivan 5786
Torah Portion: Exodus 19:1-20:23; Numbers 28:26-31
1: Exodus 19:1-6 · 6 p’sukim
2: Exodus 19:7-13 · 7 p’sukim