Shavuot – The Torah (Law) carried to the world to lead Mankind to Messiah!
May 23, 2007
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Yesterday at 6 P.M. Israel time, the Jews began to celebrate Shavuot in Jerusalem. Christians refer to it as Pentecost, but do not celebrate it on the same date as the Jews. The following information was extracted from Wikipedia.
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Shavuot, sometimes pronounced Shavuos (Hebrew:”[Feast of] Weeks”), is a Jewish holiday that occurs on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan, corresponding to late May or early June. It marks the conclusion of the Counting of the Omer and the day the Torah was given at Mount Sinai.
It is one of the shalosh regalim,
the three Biblical pilgrimage festivals mandated by the Torah.
Unlike the other two pilgrimage festivals, Passover and Sukkot, the date of Shavuot is not explicitly mentioned in the Torah. Rather, its occurrence is directly linked to the date of Passover. The Torah mandates the seven-week Counting of the Omer, beginning on the second day of Passover and culminating on the 50th day, Shavuot. This counting of days and weeks expresses anticipation and desire for the Giving of the Torah. At Passover, the Jewish people were freed from being slaves to Pharaoh; at Shavuot they accepted
the Torah and became a nation committed to serving God.
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as many aspects and as a consequence is called by several names. In the Torah it is called Feast of Weeks (Exodus 34:22, Deuteronomy 16:10); Festival of Reaping (Hebrew:Ex. 23:16), and Day of the First Fruits (Numbers 28:26). The Mishnah and Talmud refer to Shavuot as Atzeret (Hebrew: a solemn assembly), as it provides closure for the festival activities during and following the holiday of Passover. Since Shavuot occurs 50 days after Passover, Christians gave it the name Pentecost, (“fiftieth [day]”). However, the actual Christian commemoration of Pentecost occurs on the seventh Sunday after Easter.
In the Land of Israel and among Reform and Karaite Jews, Shavuot is celebrated for one day. In the Jewish diaspora outside Israel, the holiday is celebrated for two days, on the sixth and seventh days of Sivan.
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It is a celebration of the day Moses gave the 10 Commandments of the Law to Moses which was to be delivered to the world through the Jews.
The Law was a schoolmaster to lead mankind to know the Messiah as Savior by revealing the impossibility of men and women being able to keep it perfectly, thereby causing men and women to repent of their sins toward God, and put their faith for salvation in the only man who ever kept it perfectly, His Messiah,
Galatians 3:21-26 – Is the law then against the promises of God
? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should
have been by the law. [22] But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ
might be given to them that believe.
[23] But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
[24] Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. [25] But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
[26] For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
John 1:17 – For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
Galatians 2:21 – I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Acts 20:21 – Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
Acts 4:12 – Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Romans 10:9,10 – That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. [10] For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Romans 2:28,29 – For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: [29] But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Christians celebrate Pentecost (Shavuot) as the time when the Spirit descended on the first local Church, which had already been organized by the Messiah during his earthly ministry, as it was assembled on the Day of Pentecost at Jerusalem. It was the day the first church was fully empowered and given the authority to carry out the commission given to it and those like it which were to follow.
Acts 2:1-3 – And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. [2] And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. [3] And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
Matthew 28:19,20 – Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: [20] Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
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THE JERUSALEM POST
May 21, 2007
On Tuesday night, Jews around the world will celebrate Shavuot, which continues the commemoration of the Jewish people’s founding event, the Exodus from Egypt.
The holiday is named Shavuot (weeks) since it concludes the seven-week interval between the flight from Egypt on the original Pessah and the giving Torah at Mount Sinai. To relive the enthusiasm of receiving the Torah, many will study Jewish texts into the night.
In Jerusalem, thousands will gather at the Western Wall at dawn for prayers, ending the sleepless night and recalling how, in ancient times, Jews would bring the first fruits of their harvest to the Temple.
Though Shavuot somehow lacks the public resonance of more symbol-laden Pessah or Hanukka, or the gravitas of the High Holy Days, it remembers an event of universal significance: Moses delivering the Ten Commandments to the Jewish people, and through them to the world.
For Jews and Christians, the Ten Commandments stand at the center of the moral code that underlies Western civilization. Muslims also consider Moses a prophet, and are quick to point out that all of the Ten Commandments can be found in some form in the Koran.
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