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Hi Rabbi, I hope you had a nice holiday! Ruth was certainly one of the most famous converts in Jewish history. She said, “Your people are my people.” But why did my Temple read the Book of Ruth a few days ago on Shavuot? What’s the connection? Thanks so much!

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Dear Rabbi, Supposedly, Shabbat is the most important holiday, more important than any Yom Tov. If that is the case, when Shabbat and Yom Tov coincide, why do we recite the liturgy of the Yom Tov Amidah with Shabbat additions and not the other way around? Why does the Torah reading for Yom Tov preempt the one that is read on a regular Shabbat?