Shavuot marked the end of the festival (Atzeret) of the 50-day period called the Omer, between the harvest of barley – Passover - and the harvest of wheat. Sukkot, the second agricultural ...

The name Shavuot, meaning “weeks,” refers to this seven-week period... In the days of the Temple, the counting marked the seven weeks from the wheat harvest on the spring festival of Passover ...