This window focuses on the event on Mount Sinai when God gave Moses
the Decalogue.
By tradition the Giving of the Torah occurred 49 days after the escape
from Egypt.
It is considered to be the fulfilment of the Exodus.
The central image is the tablets of the law. Above are horns blowing, lightning
flashing and a pillar of fire descending on the mountain.
It is also said that the mountain-side flowered.
At the base of the window is the burning bush recalling another mountain-side
at an earlier time. This is used as a symbol for the Calling of Moses and
to bring together the whole series of events culminating in the receiving
of the Torah.
Above is the golden calf surrounded by darkness.
As with the Spring Season the main symbols in this window
are again the seven biblical species now in their fruit stage.The two main symbols are the palm and the tree with several species.
At the base of the window a sickle is being used to cut wheat giving a link to the next window.
As with the Spring Season Window, the colouring here emphasises the season of the year. Therefore it is warm and bright.
The scales represent The Time of Judgement for the fruit of the trees.
Since it is the summer festival, the people brought the first produce of the fields to the sanctuary as thanksgiving.
"The choicest first fruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the Lord thy God."Exodus 23:19.
This and The First Fruits window have the colouring for a summer harvest
festival.This window emphasises the wheat harvest which is the background to the story of Ruth which is read during Shavuos. She is represented by a hand gleaning behind the sickle.
15. When she got up to glean, Boaz instructed the men to glean right among the sheaves. 'Do not find fault with her,' he added;
16. 'you may even pull out some ears of grain from the handfuls as you cut, and leave them for her to glean;...Ruth 2:
At the top on either side is a representation of the burnt offerings which would have been offered at the Temple in Jerusalem.