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The Chida Reveals Why This Year's Isru Chag Shavuos is the Most Important Isru Chag

4.5K views · May 24, 2026

Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

A halachic insight into the significance of Isru Chag Shavuos.

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Issur Chag is a very important occasion. The day of Issur Chag is very holy. You should rejoice on it. Like I wrote by Issur Chag of Pesach, the Chida implies that Issur Chag of Shavuos is important, but not any more important than Issur Chag of Pesach. Issur Chag of Shavuos is greater than other Yom Tovim. It should have been prohibited to do melacha. But interestingly, in the perushim on the Chida, even though the Chida does not mention in Mareh Ba'etzba that Issur Chag of Shavuos is more important than other Issur Chags, in Birkei Yosef, the Chida in fact explains that it is more chomer. Regarding that which the Shulchan Aruch says, uh regarding Issur Chag of Chag

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  1. 0:03Issur Chag is a very important occasion. The day of Issur Chag is very holy. You…
  2. 0:33Issur Chag of Shavuos is greater than other Yom Tovim. It should have been prohibited to…
  3. 1:03HaShavuos, the Chida explains the importance of Issur Chag on Shavuos, even in a way that's…
  4. 1:35Tov Vi'ach. Therefore, in all years, the Issur Chag of Shavuos is elevated to a different…
  5. 2:05It would then come out that this year where Shavuos was on Shabbos, so this year…
  6. 2:35condition that is present this year. So this year's Isru Chag is the quint essential day…

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