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First Fruits is a religious offering of the first agricultural produce of the harvest. In classical Greek, Roman, and Hebrew religions, the first fruits were given to priests as an offering to deity. Beginning in 1966 a unique "First Fruits" celebration brought the Ancient African harvest festivals that became the African American holiday, Kwanzaa.
Fruits were selected for the offering as follows: Upon visiting his field and seeing a fig, or a grape, or a pomegranate that was ripe, the owner would tie a cord of reed-grass or similar fiber around the fruit, saying, "This shall be among the bikkurim." According to Simeon, he had to repeat the express designation after the fruit had been ...
The First Fruits festivals of the Nguni peoples in Southern Africa [1] are a type of sacrificial ceremony of giving the first fruits in a harvest to God believed to be responsible for the abundance of food. It was performed by the high priests of the kingdom, and the king was always in attendance.
The first chapter discusses who has the responsibility to bring the first fruits and make the declaration, who needs to bring the first fruits but not make the declaration, and who can not bring the first fruits. Among those who bring the first fruits but don't make the declaration are converts, so other halakha regarding differences between ...
The commandment for counting the Omer is recorded within the Torah in Leviticus 23:9–21: . When ye are come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring the sheaf (omer) of the first-fruits of your harvest unto the priest.
The dashing of a calabash by the Zulu King signifies that the people may now enjoy the fruits of the harvest. Umkhosi Wokweshwama [um̩kʰoːsi woɠʷeʃʷaːma] (" first fruits festival"), recently also known as Umkhosi Woselwa [um̩kʰoːsi woseːlʷa] (" calabash festival"), is the annual harvest festival of the Zulu people , observed around ...
The nuwāgi cycle celebrates the first fruits offering and is the most important ritual occasion during the harvest season in autumn, in the month of Kārtik (October/ November). The ancestors are presented with the new rice or millet, and only after they have eaten can the household consume the newly harvested grains.
Offering of the Firstfruits (illustration from a Bible card published between 1896 and 1913 by the Providence Lithograph Company) Ki Tavo, Ki Thavo, Ki Tabo, Ki Thabo, or Ki Savo (כִּי-תָבוֹא —Hebrew for "when you enter," the second and third words, and the first distinctive words, in the parashah) is the 50th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual ...