[Avodah] The Torah was not given on Shavuos!!

[Zev Sero]

Ben Waxman wrote:
>> A different question -- was the Torah received on Shavuos, or on Yom
>> Kippur?

> It may have been given on Yom Kippur but the application of TSBP is
> celebrated in Shavout with the story of Rut.

That's putting the cart before the horse.  We only read Ruth then
because it's the time of mattan torah, or because it's David's
yortzeit, or because it's harvest time, or some such reason.  It's
not as if anything in the story took place on the 6th of Sivan.


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