Shavuot

Hey, don't blame me if YOU have to work today and I get a few hours off to observe Shavuot. Not my fault you work for the wrong people. Last year I got two days off. And they bumped up against Memorial day so it was a five-day weekend. No such luck this year.

The holiday of Pentecost (Shavuot), celebrated this year on May 29 and 30, commemorates the Law being handed down at Mount Sinai. This law has brought an encompassing clarity to the behavior of mankind. When it is followed good things happen. When it is ignored life becomes that much less dignified, that much less edified. It is possible for individuals to skate through their lives in disregard of its tenets, but when the world at large tries to navigate without it, very little time elapses before chaos reigns triumphant.

Stolen from this article.