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The Three Pilgrimage Festivals or Three Pilgrim Festivals, sometimes known in English by their Hebrew name Shalosh Regalim (Hebrew: שלוש רגלים, romanized: šālōš rəgālīm, or חַגִּים, ḥaggīm), are three major festivals in Judaism—two in spring; Passover, 49 days later Shavuot (literally 'weeks', or Pentecost, from the Greek); and in autumn Sukkot ('tabernacles ...
The traditional Christian holiday of Pentecost is based on the Jewish holiday of Shavuot celebrated seven weeks after the start of Passover. Pentecost is part of the Movable Cycle of the ecclesiastical year. Pentecost is always seven weeks after the day after the Sabbath day which always occurs during the feast of unleavened bread.
What Is Pentecost? Pentecost is a Christian festival commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit on followers of Jesus Christ. ... "The Pentecost has a variety of names in the Bible: Shavuot, The ...
The association between Shavuot and covenants suggests a connection to the giving of the Torah, which itself was a covenant between God and Israel. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] In addition, the description of Asa's covenant repeatedly alludes both to the giving of the Torah [ 25 ] and to the Shavuot holiday, [ 26 ] suggesting a link between the two.
There, we find a biblical outline for the Jewish festival, Shavuot, or Feast of Weeks (see Leviticus 23:15-21, Numbers 28:26-31 and Deuteronomy 16:9-12). Traditionally a grain harvest festival ...
An Ultra Orthodox Jewish man in Israel harvests wheat ahead of the holiday of Shavuot. AP Photo/Ariel SchalitThe festival of Shavuot, marked this year on June 5 and 6, celebrates the biblical ...
One of the meanings of "Pentecost" in the Septuagint, the Koine translation of the Hebrew Bible, refers to the festival of Shavuot, one of the Three Pilgrimage Festivals, which is celebrated on the fiftieth day after Passover according to Deuteronomy 16:10, [i] and Exodus 34:22, [4] where it is referred to as the "Festival of Weeks" (Koinē ...
Between May 11 & Jun 14 (Catholic) Between May 24 & Jun 27 (Orthodox) Pentecost Monday: יום שני לשבועות Yom Sheni LeShavuot Recognized Christian holiday Sivan 6 between May 15 & Jun 14 Shavuot שבועות Shavuot: Official holiday Tammuz 17 Seventeenth of Tammuz, fast שבעה עשר בתמוז Tsom Shiva` Asar b-Tammuz: Business ...