{"id":30614,"date":"2010-05-17T19:50:01","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/production.ou.org\/holidays\/shavuot\/the_etz_hachaim_within_us\/"},"modified":"2017-08-21T18:47:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T18:47:09","slug":"the_etz_hachaim_within_us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/the_etz_hachaim_within_us\/","title":{"rendered":"The Etz Hachaim Within Us &#8211; 5770"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-266x266 size-266x266 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/files\/Shtei-HaLechem-e1462694916527-768x512.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/files\/Shtei-HaLechem-e1462694916527-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/files\/Shtei-HaLechem-e1462694916527-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/files\/Shtei-HaLechem-e1462694916527-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" alt=\"Shtei HaLechem\" width=\"266\" height=\"177\" \/>No mention is made of Matan Torah in the context of Shavuot and no specific date is given in the Torah for Shavuot, we are only told it is the 50th day after the korban omer. Why is the Shtei HaLechem brought on shavuot, it\u2019s not a fruit like the bikkurim!?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No mention is made of Matan Torah in the context of Shavuot and no specific date is given in the Torah for Shavuot, we are only told it is the 50th day after the korban omer. Why is the Shtei HaLechem brought on shavuot, it\u2019s not a fruit like the bikkurim!?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":885,"featured_media":38983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[357],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shavuot","post_format-post-format-audio"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Etz Hachaim Within Us - 5770 - Jewish Holidays<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"No mention is made of Matan Torah or a specific date for Shavuot. Why is the Shtei HaLechem brought, it\u2019s not a fruit! 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