Does calling Shavuot 'zman matan Torateinu' contradict the view that the Torah was given on the 7th of Sivan?
Synopsis
The Magen Avraham raises the difficulty that we call Shavuot 'the time of the giving of our Torah' while the halakhic conclusion follows R' Yose that the Torah was given on the 7th of Sivan, not the 6th. He resolves this by noting it is still called 'the time of' (zman) giving, not 'the day of' (yom) giving.
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