What's It About?
שבועות Shavuot | Pentecost (Feast of Weeks) celebrates the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. After the exodus from Egypt on Passover, Moses led the children of Israel through the desert to reach Mount Sinai, where they were given the Ten Commandments and the Torah.
Key Information
Background Insight:
Shemoth (Exodus) 23:16 & 34:22; Devariym (Deuteronomy) 16:9-12, Ma'asiym (Acts) 2:1-47; 2:1 & 20:16; Qorintiym Ri'shon (1 Corinthians) 16:8
Shavu'ot: שבועות or חג השבועות
Shavuot | Pentecost (Feast of Weeks) occurs at the end of the 50th day period which is seven weeks after the sheaf offering of the harvest celebrated during Passover. This period is known as Counting of the Omer. Shavuot commemorates the anniversary of the day Yahuah gave the Ten Commandments to Mosheh (Moses) and the Israelites at Mount Sinai.
Its date is directly linked to that of Passover; the Torah mandates the seven-week Counting of the Omer, beginning on the second day of Passover, to be immediately followed by Shavuot. This counting of days and weeks is understood to express anticipation and desire for the giving of the Torah. On Passover, the people of Israel were freed from their enslavement to Pharaoh; on Shavuot, they were given the Torah and became a nation committed to serving Elohiym.
How to Observe
How doe we observe/celebrate?
We observe and celebrate bygiving a freewill offering unto the Most High. We and everyone in our house shall rejoice and remember that we were once in bondage and that we are to observe and do these statutes!
Seven weeks shall you number unto you: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as you begin to put the sickle to the grain. And you shall keep the Feast of Shavu'oth unto Yahuah Elohayka with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give unto Yahuah Elohayka, according as Yahuah Elohayka has blessed you: And you shall rejoice before Yahuah Elohayka, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Leviyiy that is within your gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which Yahuah Elohayka has chosen to place his name there. And you shall remember that you were a bondman in Mitsrayim: and you shall guard and do these statutes. DEVARIYM (DEUTERONOMY) 16:9-12 את CEPHER
Are these Feasts of him done away with?
NO.
Qolasiym (Colossians) 2:16-17: Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath day: things which ARE a shadow of things to come; but the body of Messiah.Feast Days - Should we observe them?
Should we still observe these feasts?
YES.
In Vayiqra (Leviticus) chapter 23 we're told four different times that these feast days are to be a "statute forever, throughout your generations" (Lev 23:14, 21, 31, 41).
Sources: Cepher Bible with Apocrypha | Hebrew Israelites, Biblical Feast Days by Unknown Hebrew | Hebrew Lexicon | Blue Letter Bible
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