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Yom Teruah & Yom Kippur

Yom Teruah – Day of Blasting / aka Festival of Trumpets

Yom Teruah begins on the first day of Chodesh Shv’i (Seventh New Moon) and is a Shabbat like day and all work is forbidden. It is the only festival celebrated at the beginning of the month. The only one celebrated in a time of darkness. Yom Teruah is a feast of beginning and literally means a “Day of Shouting or Blasting”. This word can describe the noise made by a shophar or trumpet, but also describes the noise made by a large gathering of people shouting in unison.

Hebrew tradition teaches that Chodesh Shv’i is the new moon when Yahweh crowed the King, and is likewise the day when the King is to return to pass judgement on the world. One is judged on Yom Teruah and one’s doom is sealed 10 days later on Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement). The trumpet will be sounded on Yom Teruah to signify the second coming of Yahusha, when he returns to pass judgement. If your name isn’t already written in the Book of Life, then you have a 10-day tribulation period between Yom Teruah and Yom Kippur to repent and atone for your sins before the Book of Life is opened, on Yom Kippur, and the verdict is sealed. In the Scriptures, 10 days is sometimes referred to as the time-period for trials and tribulations.

Yom Kippur – Day of Atonement

The literal translation of Yom Kippur is “Day of Atonement”. It occurs on the 10th day of Chodesh Shvi’i (Seventh New Moon), just before the Fall harvest.
Yom Kippur is a holy day, and all work is forbidden. It is a day of intense relationship with Yahweh and is a day of self-abnegation and prayer.
Yom Kippur is the only day when the High Priest could enter the “holy of holies” in the ancient Temple in Yerushalayim. Yom Kippur is often referred to as the Shabbat of Shabbats (Sabbath of Sabbaths); it is considered the most holy of the set-apart Shabbats. It is the holiest day of the entire year and is generally spent fasting and praying for forgiveness. It’s the moment of the most intense spiritual experience, the moment of atonement, the moment when all misdeeds are covered over. Yom Kippur is the day to forgive others of theirs sins against you and for you to repent and atone for your sins against others and against Yahweh. Most Hebrew set-apart days involve festive meals, but Yom Kippur involves affliction of one’s soul instead.

By refraining from certain activities, the body is made uncomfortable. Since the soul is the life force in a body, one’s soul is also made uncomfortable. Affliction of one’s soul was accomplished by acts like dry fasting (no food or water), forgoing marital relations, etcetera. The 10-day tribulation period starts with repentance on Yom Teruah and is completed with full atonement on Yom Kippur. At the time of the Second Coming, one will be judged on Yom Teruah and one’s doom sealed 10 days later on Yom Kippur when the Book of Life is opened.

Atonement / Repentance Correlation

Repentance is one element of atoning for one’s sin. To repent is to feel sorrow, regret or pain for what one has done or omitted to do. To atone is to make amends, reparation or compensation for a sin, an offence or a crime one has committed.

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The World English Bible

The World English Bible is an update of the American Standard Version of 1901 . Work on the World English Bible began in 1997 with the translation method being primarily a word-for-word equivalence to, and based on the 1901 American Standard Version, the Greek Majority Text, the Hebrew Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia with minor adjustments made because of alternative readings found in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Septuagint .

The World English Bible project is a non-copyrighted modern English Bible version that does not use archaic English, like the King James Version , or is a simplified version like the Bible in Basic English.
The World English Bible came about to provide a complete translation of the Holy Bible in normal modern English that can provide unrestricted free posting on the internet. The Colorado nonprofit corporation, Rainbow Missions, Incand its many volunteer translators, editors and proofreaders produced it. The process comprised seven “passes” of editing and proofreading for each book of the Bible. An initial automated pass updated 1,000 archaic words and phrases. The first manual pass was to add quotation marks, the American Standard Version has none, and other punctuation, and to check the translation against the Greek and Hebrew texts where there are significant textual variants or the meaning is unclear.

The WEB does not capitalize deity pronouns, and it uses the original Hebrew “ Yahweh ” instead of Jehovah when transliterating the tetragrammaton . Besides the books found in modern Christian Protestant bibles , the World English Bible also includes the Apocryphal and Deuterocanonical books . There is also the World English Bible: Messianic Edition that substitutes traditional Hebrew names and phrases for the equivalent Greek/English names and phrases.

Overall, the WEB is an excellent translation, sticking to formal word equivalence in most instances. The main knock on the World English Bible is that it isn’t always in the most free-flowing English, likely because the WEB goes with an as literal as possible rendering of the ASV. The lack of availability of the WEB in print form has hindered its adoption by the Christian community at large.

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The Story of a Soul

Life Lessons from St. Thérèse Of Lisieux

The Story of a Soul conveys St. Thérèse of Lisieux’s “Little Way” of spiritual childhood – her “elevator” to Heaven, as she called it. Pope Pius XI approved this method as a way for all to grow in holiness through unfailing confidence and childlike delight in God’s merciful love. In this book, St. Thérèse shows us how her “Little Way” of love and trust comes straight from Sacred Scripture. Pope St Pius X called St. Thérèse of Lisieux the “greatest Saint of modern times and said that this book should be in every Catholic home”. From the very beginning of Story of a Soul, we learn that Therese’s life as a child had great suffering. She faced trials such as the death of a family member, life-threatening illness, and struggling to find the path that God had planned for her life. Her life was filled with hardships and tears, it’s what she did in the aftermath of despair that made her truly great. It can be extremely difficult to continue to push forward when feeling lost, confused, and even angry. In our darkest moments, and also with the stress of daily life, love can be hard to uphold. St. Therese realized this and understood what a daunting task vowing to do everything in love could be. Yet, when she confronted sickness with no cure: she still showed love.

How do we experience joy during the toughest moments of our lives? Therese only lived to be 24, and constant suffering scarred her life. Her mother died of cancer when she was four, and her sister and best friend Pauline abandoned her for the Carmel a few years later. Then, at the end of her life, tuberculosis ravaged both her body and soul. The crippling disease caused her so much pain that it caused her to question her faith in a period she called the darkest of her life.

Thérèse looked at the challenges she faced as an opportunity from God. It was a chance to love, unconditionally, as Jesus loves. So, for us, we need to embrace the daily challenges that come our way.

God doesn’t give them to us as punishment or because He thinks we deserve it. Instead, the tough days should bring us closer to Him. Challenge yourself and live outside of comfort, because otherwise how can we grow? And neither should we.
Thérèse embraced all her struggles with an incredible resilience. She welcomed her deathbed with more faith and love of Christ than she ever had. Better than anything else, she understood Christ’s sacrifice on the cross and what it meant for us. Thérèse had made it a point to be Christlike in every other aspect of life, and to her there was no more noble ideal than suffering as Christ suffered. Thérèse bore the crosses and didn’t put them down.

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The Religion of the Celts

Celt traditions, activities, language and laws dictated the way of life in Ireland and Scotland for thousands of years and still governs many aspects of their life today. Both Ireland’s and Scotland’s national language were derived from the Celt language Gaelic. Their national sports and their musical instruments come from the Celts. The rich Irish legacy of art and mythology is attributable to Celtic influence. We have plenty objects and other evidence of the Celts prior lives and time in Ireland and Scotland, but we can only guess at what their lives were like before they started to write things down. Their first writings were in the form of Ogham writing carved on stones and wood, and later in illuminated manuscripts that today’s historians have used to deduce information about this mystical ancient society from the traces they left behind.

Did you know?

There is no genetic relationship between Vikings and Celts, but they lived next to each other around 1000 BC, and the Celtic culture had a deep influence on ancient Germanic people. Therefore, they have much in common. The Celts were a people found in Iron Age Europe about 2,500 years ago, and who migrated westwards to Ireland and Scotland, where their descendants remain today.

“Patrick prayed against the “spells of women, smiths, and Druids,” — John Arnott MacCulloch, The Religion of the Ancient Celts

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The Promised Land

An Autobiography of Mary Antin

The Promised Land is the autobiography of Mary Antin, written in 1912, that recounts her childhood in Belarus and her journey to the United States in 1894, and her assimilation into American society.
The book sold over 85,000 copies and received positive reviews. Its acclaim permitted Mary to do lectures across the country, a stage she utilized to encourage tolerance of immigration to America.
Her book was disapproved of by anti-immigration fighters, who didn’t accept her as an American, and likewise by some Jews, who believed she disrespected her Jewish culture.
The Promised Land is the life story of a young Jewish girl who emigrates from the Russian to the slums of Boston, in America, with her family.
Even though living in the slums was hard, their migrant neighbors experienced many of the same difficulties and were all willing to help support each other.

Mary Antin

“We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”

About Mary Antin

Mary’s entire family became American citizens, including her 3 siblings born in Boston that were applauded for being the family’s first-born Americans.
As a young girl Miss Antin possessed an innate passion for knowledge which she used to get her family out of the slums. Much of the narrative revolves around Miss Antin’s appreciation for free American education and unrestricted access to public buildings, specifically the library.
The story is a constructive look at the sentiments of the new American immigrants. It was moving to realize that hard work and commitment were the only things necessary for prosperity in America.
Mary Antin was born on June 13, 1881 in Polatsk, Belarus and died on May 15, 1949, of cancer, in Suffern, New York. Mary Antin was an American writer and also an activist for immigration rights.
Her most acclaimed work was her autobiography titled “The Promised Land,” written in 1912, is an account of her migration and resultant Americanization, as well as the life of Jews in Czarist Russia. Mary’s father, Israel Antin, migrated to Boston’s South End community, an infamous slum area, in 1891, and brought Mary, her mother (Esther Weltman Antin) and siblings over 3 years afterward.
After completing elementary school, Mary went to the Girls’ Latin School, now Boston Latin Academy. She wed Amadeus William Grabau, a geologist, in 1901, and moved with him to New York City where she attended Barnard College and the Teachers College of Columbia University. After publishing her book, Mary spoke about her journey to America to many spectators throughout the country.
Mary was a big supporter of Theodore Roosevelt and his Progressive (or Bull Moose) Party, and during World War I, she lobbied on behalf of the Allied forces, while her husband supported Germany. This conflict led to their separation and to her subsequent nervous breakdown.

Works of Mary Antin

The Promised Land, by Mary Antin; with illustrations from photographs. (1912)
They who knock at our gates; a complete gospel of immigration.(1914)
Salz, Evelyn (ed.). Selected letters of Mary Antin (1st ed.). 2000

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The Life of Joseph Smith, the Prophet

Facts about Joseph Smith

Joseph Smith (1805-1844) was an American religious leader and founded the unique American sect, the Mormons. or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Life of Joseph Smith, the Prophet by George Q. Cannon is distinct and has an eyewitness account Elder Cannon and the Prophet met when George was quite young and had come to Nauvoo. Illinois as a convert. And from that moment onwards, he dedicated himself to the sole purpose of restoring the truthfulness of God and bore testimony to the divine call which came to the Prophet. The author shows the vigor within the Prophet to come out with Ideas for the restoration and the complete dedication from the Prophet to his divine call in this book.
From letters, interesting firsthand accounts to and other original matter, this dramatic and honest account contains everything related to the early life of the Church as bound to the life and death of the Prophet Joseph Smith.
Jesus had said that there is no love greater than the love of a man laying down his life for his friends- (John 15:13). The book concludes with this sacrifice of the Prophet and knowledge that the true Church has been restored and will never be taken from the earth again unless Jesus Christ comes to reign himself.

Joseph Smith Jr.

(December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844)

Joseph Smith was born on 23rd December 1805 in Vermont and his family moved to western New York In 1816, One of the most distinguished features of the terrain were the Indian mounds consisting of skeletons of warriors who died a long time ago. Smith discussed how some golden plates he had come upon had allowed him to decode the hieroglyphics of the tablets. lie worked on the translation after moving to Pennsylvania and according to him, it was a history of Mormonism.
an American prophet and 4th century historian. it was about 2 Jewish people who had moved to North America and were visited by Jesus after his ascension. The Book of Mormon appeared for sale in 1830 and soon gained popularity in spreading the Mormon religion.
Soon after Smith claimed to be a “Prophet, an Apostle of Jesus Christ and Elder of the Church” and founded a restored Christian church. However, his claim aroused aggression in the people living In New York and Pennsylvania and he called up his ever-increasing flock to an exodus in 1831. The Mormon community cultivated into a utopian communal experiment after settling in Kirtland, Ohio and the church provided sustenance from a common storehouse.
Smith published the “Word of Wisdom” in 1833 which inspired members of the church to quit alcohol, hot drinks, tobacco and to eat meat only during winters. The Mormon temperance advocates forced a vote for total abstinence in 1836 but Smith had to rejoin his Missouri followers later on because he faced severe judgement regarding his inefficient management of Kirtland’s financial affairs. The colony did not approve of Smith and he eventually had to flee under death sentence to Nauvoo.
Smith published a piece in the 1840s which talked about the “Hamitic curse” in a way to remove Blacks from the Mormon priesthood. He took the position that the Mormon church should allow polygamy. However, he kept his practice a secret due to Its dangerous nature and only exposed it to a privileged few. Smith considered Nauvoo as a colony independent of the U.S and he was declared the king of this new kingdom of God on earth by the leaders of his church. Smith ran for President of the United States that very same year and said that he would establish democracy and eradicate slavery.
The Mormon polygamy practice was exposed in 1844, and an order was issued by the Illinois governor to arrest Smith but the militiamen murdered him instead, on lune 27, 1844.

George Quayle Cannon

“No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, God will never desert us, He never has, and lie never will.”

George Quayle Cannon was born on January 11, 1827, in Liverpool, England, United Kingdom and died on April 12, 1901, In Monterey, California, United States.
His parents were George Cannon and Ann Quayle and he was the oldest of the 6 kids.
His parents belonged to Peel on the Isle of Man and his brothers and sisters were Ann Cannon (Woodbury), David H. Cannon, Mary Alice Cannon (Lambert), Leonora Cannon (Gardner), and Angus M. Cannon. George Cannon’s sister Leonora Cannon wed to-be Latter-Day Saint apostle John Taylor and was baptized in 1836.
4 years later after the elder George Cannon received the news, the complete Cannon family was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints when Taylor arrived at Liverpool. He was only 13 years old at that time.
The Cannon family started their journey to the United States in 1842 to sign up with the church in Nauvoo, Illinois. Cannon’s mother died when they were sailing across the Atlantic Ocean and the family reached Nauvoo safely during the Spring of 1843.1n 1844, George Sr. married Mary Edwards and the two had a daughter named Elizabeth Cannon (Piggott).
He joined the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS Church) quite early and worked in the First Presidency under 4 consecutive presidents of the church namely John Taylor, Lorenzo Snow, Wilford Woodruff, and Brigham Young. He was the principal political strategist of the church and the press gave him the title the Mormon Richelieu- and the Mormon premier. He became a Utah territorial delegate to the U.S. Congress 5 times.
He was into polygamy and he had 6 wives and even justified his practice. When asked about the ban regarding polygamy by the Supreme Court In the 1879 Reynolds v. United States decision, Cannon said that his only crime was that Instead of seducing and destroying women, he believed in marrying them and having children with them. He further said he wanted to be ruled out from bastardy, infanticide, and land prostitution. Cannon further justified the concept saying that if George Reynolds, a man convicted of committing bigamy was to be punished, then in the Earth full of liberty, the law is quickly summoned to punish religion but justice was nowhere to be found in the pursuit of crime.

Cannon’s Publications

Robt. N. Baskin, contestant. v. George Q. Cannon. contestee: Brief and argument of Charles A. Eldredge, counsel of contestee. Gibson Brothers, printers. (1876)
Cannon, George Q. Discourse: Delivered in the New Tabernacle, Salt Lake City. Sunday morning. October 8, 1877. W. Budge. (1878)
My first mission. Juvenile instructor office. 1882
The life of Nephi: The son of Lehi. (1883)
Life of Joseph Smith: The Prophet. (1886)
The Latter-Day Prophet: History of Joseph Smith Written for Young People (1900)
A history of the prophet Joseph Smith for young people. • 1969-Writings from the Western standard. Paladin Press.(1957)
Newquist, Jerreld L. (Ed.).Gospel truth: discourses and writings of president George Q. Cannon (Vol. 1).(1974)
Gospel truth: discourses and writings of president George Q. Cannon (Vol. 2).(1974)
Turley, Richard E. Jr.; Cannon, Adrian; Landon, Michael (Eds.).The Journals of George Q. Cannon (Vol. 1).(1999)
The Journal of George Q. Cannon. The Church Historian’s Press. Online Publication.(2016)

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The Apocalypse of Thomas

The emergence of this book has been recent. The Gelasian Decree denounces the book ‘proclaimed the Revelation of Thomas’ as apocryphal, and that was all that was known of it. In 1908, an excerpt in the Berlin MS. (eighth-ninth century) of Jerome’s Chronicle was detected by Dr. Frick. In the eighteenth year of Tiberius, the manuscript includes this remark:
The apocryphal writing, said to be by Thomas the apostle, it states that the Lord Jesus told him that from his ascension into heaven to his second advent the time comprised is nine jubilees.
This does not appear in any of the printed texts. Previously, in 1907, F. Wilhelm had published, in his Deutsche Legenden and Legendare, a text from a Munich MS. which initially attracted little attention, but was in fact the lost Apocalypse of Thomas.

Palimpsest

In the same year E. Hauler revealed that a leaf of a fifth-century palimpsest at Vienna, the same that contains a leaf of the Epistle of the Apostles, was a fragment of this book.
In the same year E. Hauler revealed that a leaf of a fifth-century palimpsest at Vienna, the same that contains a leaf of the Epistle of the Apostles, was a fragment of this book. Professor E. von Dobschutz had, before this, commenced preparing a volume of the Apocalypse based on manuscripts at Munich and Rome which had not yet emerged. In the Journal of Theological Studies for 1910, the beginning of a book from a Verona MS. (of eighth century) was printed.
Latin appears to have been the authentic language of the pamlimpsest, and the data of the fuller text points to the time of Arcadius and Honorius as the period when it was written.

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Isaac Newton

“Yet one thing secures us whatever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.”

Isaac Newton was born on January 4, 1643, in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire England, and died on March 31, 1727, in Kensington, Middlesex, Great Britain. He was an English mathematician, astronomer, theologian, physicist, and writer (described in his period as a “natural philosopher”) who is broadly recognized as one of the greatest mathematicians and most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution.
His book Philosophy Naturalis Principia Mathematica was first published in 1687, made with classical mechanics. Isaac also made influential contributions to optics and shares credit with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for developing the infinitesimal calculus.
Newton was educated at The King’s School, Grantham and was tutored in both Latin and Greek and is where he developed a significant foundation in mathematics. He was pulled out of school and returned home to Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth in October 1659. His mother, widowed for the 2nd time, tried to make him a farmer, an occupation he hated. Henry Stokes, a master at the King’s School, convinced his mother to send him back to school. After returning to school, Newton became the school’s top-ranked student.
When Newton was 3, his mother re-wed and moved to live with Reverend Barnabas Smith, her new husband. She left Isaac in the care of his grandmother, Margery Ayscough. Isaac hated his stepfather and held some conflict with his mother for marrying him.

Published in his lifetime

De analysi per aequationes numero terminorum infinitas (1669, published 1711)
Of Natures Obvious Laws & Processes in Vegetation (unpublished, c. 1671–75)
De motu corporum in gyrum (1684)
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687)
Scala graduum Caloris. Calorum Descriptiones & signa (1701)
Opticks (1704)
Reports as Master of the Mint (1701–1725)
Arithmetica Universalis (1707) – Published posthumously
De mundi systemate (The System of the World) (1728)
Optical Lectures (1728)
The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended (1728)
Observations on Daniel and The Apocalypse of St. John (1733)
Method of Fluxions (1671, published 1736)
An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture (1754)

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Chag Sukkot

Festival of Booths

Chag Sukkot is celebrated on the 15th day of Chodesh Shvi’i (Seventh New Moon), at the full moon. The Festival of Sukkot lasts 8 days with the first and last day being Shabbat-like holy days where all work is forbidden. During the time of the yearly festival, the congregation of Yisrael had to construct a sukkah (booth) and stay in it for 8 days. The first day of the festival is the set-apart day called the Festival of Asif (Festival of Ingathering), a day of reaping the benefits of all our works. It occurs after the harvest in the fall and is a time of fulfillment and rejoicing. The Festival of Sukkot is one of 3 pilgrimage festivals appointed by the Scriptures and is the only festival associated with an explicit commandment to rejoice.

The Hebrew word sukkot is the plural of sukkah, in English it’s interpreted as booth or hut.
A sukkah is a temporary structure with outer walls and a roof constructed of leafy tree branches. It was a dwelling that farmers occupied during harvest time.
The Festival of Sukkot is a time for remembrance of the feeble habitats occupied by the Hebrews during their 40 years of wandering in the desert after their emancipation from slavery in Mitsrayim.
Yahweh established the Festival of Sukkot to ensure that the congregation of Yisrael would always remember their journey in the desert, from Mitsrayim to Canaan (Israel/Jordan), when they had to live in booths.
Mosheh often warned the Hebrews not to forget Yahweh their Elohim, who redeemed them from slavery, once they entered the land of milk and honey. Living in booths for a week is a tangible reminder of Yahweh’s provision in the wilderness for the congregation of Yisrael and that their bountiful life in Canaan was on account of Yahweh’s grace. It was Yahweh who had brought them to the Promised Land, and it is Yahweh who will take everything away if they do not follow his laws, statues and judgments; specifically commemorating their journey.

Sukkot is a time for the Hebrews to remember the great harvest they just completed, the wealth they have achieved, and the freedom they gained all happened entirely through the grace of Yahweh.
Like most of the ancient Hebrew festivals, its first day is a set-apart day for holy convocation derived from agricultural customs and revolves around the Exodus of the Hebrew slaves. However, unlike any other festival, it has an 8th day, tacked on at the end of the usual 7-day festival cycle.
The 8th day brings the Sukkot period to its state of perfection. A day held back in order to complete the cycle; the seed gone underground in apparent death, only to give new life in the Spring.
A sign of the commencement of the impending winter, of having less, of internalization and starting over again, that moment when the Hebrew people no longer had to live in booths.
It represents a moment in time that hasn’t happened yet, the moment of fulfillment when all work is complete, like when the congregation of Yisrael could enter the Promised Land. It is symbolic of the moment of Mosheh’s death: a death that moves at once towards new life, towards the people crossing the River Jordan into Canaan, the Promised Land.
Like other festivals, it is also prophetic. The Festival of Sukkot is a look to the future, when the new heaven and earth are formed. As it declares in the Scriptures, even after the new heaven and new earth are formed, all nations must still go up year after year to worship the King, Yahweh of Hosts.

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Chag Shavuot

Festival of Weeks

The Hebrew word shavuot means “weeks” in English. Chag Shavuot is a festival of revelation, which occurs 7 weeks and 1 day (50 days) after Pesach. It falls between May 15 and June 14 on the Gregorian calendar.
The 7 days of weeks (49 days) count starts on the 2nd day of the Festival of Matzot, the day after Pesach, and ends the day before the Festival of Shavuot, the 50th day.
It is the moment where the Hebrew people met Yahweh face to face on Mount Sinai to receive the 10 Commandments and the Laws of Mosheh. The Festival of Shavuot is one of the 3 scripturally ordained Pilgrimage Festivals.
It marks the time of the wheat harvest in Yisrael and is sometimes referred to as the Festival of Harvest or the Day of the First Fruits.

The festival commemorates the anniversary of Mosheh receiving the Laws from Yahweh at Mount Sinai. It recounts the seven weeks the Hebrew people where lead by Yahweh himself, appearing by day as a cloud and at midnight as fire, after they left Mistrayim and before receiving the Laws of Mosheh, on the 50th day, at Mount Sinai. The counting of days and weeks is understood to represent spiritual preparation, anticipation and desire of the children of Yisrael to receive the Laws of Mosheh so they could again know how to serve Yahweh.
The “Book of Ruth” is traditionally read on the morning of the Festival of Shavuot because the story takes place during the harvest season, and because of the symbolism associated with Ruth as the great-grandmother of King Dawid (King David), who was born and died on Shavuot.

Refer to the “Counting the Weeks Table” below for additional information pertaining to The Festival of Shavuot.

Counting the Weeks of Shavuot – Hebrew Names

Counting the Weeks of Shavuot – English Translation

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