Balak precedes the Fast of the Fourth Month (that’s what the navi calls Shiv’a Asar b’Tammuz) almost 80% of the time. That includes, in Chutz LaAretz, the years when Shavuot is Friday-Shabbat an ...

Sunday is Pentecost, celebrated 50 days after Easter. It celebrates the New Creation, when God takes up residence in every follower of Jesus.

What is Shavuot? The Jewish festival that started hours after Boulder, Colorado, attack Hebrew for “weeks,” Shavuot has been observed since biblical times.

In case of abuse, Report this post. The holiday of Shavuot, the Jewish Pentecost, celebrated fifty days after Passover, is perhaps the most forgotten of Jewish holidays today.

The temple held their inauguration for the new Torah on June 5th which is Shavuot Vot, the Feast of Weeks, the celebration of the original giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai.

Shavuot, which means "weeks" in Hebrew, is probably the most important Jewish holiday non-Jews have never heard of, commemorating the single most important event in Israel's history.

God ordered the celebration of Pentecost — also called the Festival of Weeks, or Shavuot — as an annual feast day for his people.

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).