No customary work.

[brYce]

What activities are permitted on Festival Sabbaths like Shavuot? We are permitted to cook, but what else? What is the Scriptural basis for the permission we have to cook and such?

[Jeff A]

B"H Numbers 28:26 ESV "On the day of the firstfruits, when you offer a grain offering of new grain to the LORD at your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work, The words translated as "ordinary work" are malachot avodah, which has the implication of doing work for another, such as an employer. Cooking is acceptable, because it is being done for one's self, family and friends, and not as a servant or employee.

Jeff

[brYce]

Thanks a lot, Jeff. Your reply helped me to find the following link:

http://www.mesora.org/rabbifox/Emor65.htm

What do you think of this explanation?