May 15, 2013
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My previous postings on the topic…
The Jewish Shavuot
The Messianic Pentecost
Presenting Our Shavuot/Pentecost And some other postings on the topic,
because here are some things *I* learned this time:http://www.mpaths.com/2013/05/shavuosreaching-summit.html
“Shovuos is the culmination of fifty days after going out of Egypt. We find that fifty is a number associated with travelling. The letters that surround and divide the two pesukim that speak of the travelling and encamping of the Oron – from the rest of the Torah are nuns. Nun is gematria fifty. Yet, fifty also represents that which is removed from time or spatiality. The Gemoro says the inverted nuns indicate that these pesukim are not in their right place and – ‘in the future’ they we will be placed correctly… It lies, as it were, above the normal cycle of time. It is here that G-d meets us.”The names of this holiday are: Chag Shavuot – The Feast of Weeks, Z’man Matan Torateinu – The Time of the Giving of Our Torah, Chag HaBikkurim – The Holiday of the First Fruits, Atzeret – The Holiday of “Being Held Back, or Restrained, Close to Hashem, in the Temple, Chag HaKatzir – The Holiday of the Cutting of the Crop , Chag Shavuot - The Feast of Weeks…Passover is the holiday on which we commemorate our Redemption from Slavery in Egypt. That was our “Physical Redemption.” But physical redemption is not enough. It would have left us “free” people, but with no purpose to our lives. …Shavuot is the purpose of the Exodus from Egypt. Seven weeks had to pass before we were able to shake off the feeling of being subject to taskmasters… this “Atzeret” comes at the conclusion of a process which began on “Pesach,”.
‘Torah teaches us that we are to observe Pesach in commemoration of our redemption from Egypt and that we are to celebrate Succot in order to recall our sojourn in the wilderness, the purpose and objective of Shavuot are not stated in the Torah…Another oddity in the Torah’s treatment of Shavuot is found in the above passage. The date of every other festival is identified by the Torah as a calendar date. Pesach’s date is the 15th of the first month of the year. Rosh HaShanah’s date is the first day of the seventh month of the year. Shavuot is the only exception to this pattern. It is not assigned a calendar date. Instead, we are instructed to count seven weeks or forty-nine days from the day after the first day of the festival of Pesach. On the fiftieth day Shavuot is to be observed. The deviation from the typical dating standard – assigning each festival to a day of a month – can be explained. The apparent purpose of the Torah’s dating scheme for Shavuot is to stress the relationship between Pesach and Shavuot. Shavuot completes the objective of Pesach. …We count from the day commemorating our redemption to the date of Revelation.
It is customary to recite Ruth on Shavuot … The Megilah provides an account of the conversion of Ruth to Judaism. She travels to the Land of Israel with her mother-in-law Naomi. They live together in poverty, … Eventually, the relationship results in Boaz’s rescue of the family from poverty and his marriage to Ruth.”
((Love this… Ruth was forward, and went to Boaz.
Makes me feel better about my boldness in coming to His feet so brashly…))At any rate, C’hag Shavuot Sameach!
PS: I love that Aish.com used the top picture…
cuz, ‘As lightning cometh from the east‘… you know me.
Comments (2)
Does your translation of exodus say something of the third new moon after pesach? 3.5 months and 7 weeks seems …odd. but my brain gave up on me some days ago, so must be a simple answer, right?
There is: count the Omer. :thumbsup: