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Wed, 30-May-12 10:05:06
Aad2 wrote:If Shavuot is the feast of harvest/first fruits, how is it related to the giving of the Tora?
In common with Pĕsaḥ and Sukkot, Shavu'ot also has an agricultural significance (i.e. it is also a “harvest festival”). The Torah requires us (at Vayikra 23:15, D'varim 16:9-10) to count off seven complete weeks starting on the day after the first day of Pĕsaḥ and then to celebrate the fiftieth day as “Bikkurim” (the summer harvest festival)—which is why we call it Shavu'ot (a name also found in the Torah at D'varim 16:10).Thus, the ”first day” to be counted is 16th Nisan; 30th Nisan is day #15 and 1st Iyyar is day #16; 29th Iyyar is day #44 and 1st Sivan is day #45; 5th Sivan is day #49 and 6th Sivan (Shavu'ot) is day #50.Now as you say the Torah doesn’t mention anywhere the date when the Revelation at Mount Ḥorév occurred; but, as I explained in Reply #1, it was on 6th Sivan—which happens to be the same date as Shavu'ot. This is the connection between the summer harvest festival and the giving of the Torah: they both fall on the same day.
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