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  1. 3 days ago · Because Easter is a moveable feast without a fixed date and Pentecost depends on the timing of Easter, Pentecost can fall anywhere between May 10 and June 13. ... There is a parallel Jewish ...

  2. 2 days ago · Jewish / Hebrew Date Converter. Use this powerful tool to look up any regular / Gregorian calendar date and convert it to its corresponding Jewish date, or vice versa. Today's Hebrew date is: Monday, Iyar 12, 5784 - May 20, 2024. Parshat Behar. Add an event to my calendar.

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  4. 3 days ago · “Shavuot is celebrated on the fiftieth day after Passover. Seven weeks after the miracle-filled liberation from Egypt, God gave His people the Torah,” explains Rabbi Oded Peles, an Israeli educator, in a commentary for the Heschel Center of the Catholic University of Lublin for the May 19 celebration of Pentecost. While Jews celebrate Pentecost (Shavuot) fifty days after Passover ...

  5. 5 days ago · T he feast of Pentecost has often been related typologically to the story of the tower of Babel in Genesis 11. Yet, the strange ways in which Babel and the question of linguistic multiplicity have been read by Jewish and Christian exegetes make a simple reading of “bad” diversity returning to “good” unity problematic.

  6. 4 days ago · Pentecost, which Christians celebrate 50 days after Easter, is related to Shavuot, a Jewish festival celebrated 50 days after Passover. People in the ancient, Greek-speaking world referred to ...

  7. 4 days ago · 1. The Jewish name for Pentecost is Shavuot, or the Feast of Weeks (Leviticus 23:16), a feast in the calendar of Israel celebrating the giving of the Law on Sinai. This feast is still celebrated in Judaism as Shavuot. According to Jewish tradition, Pentecost commemorates God giving the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai fifty days after the Exodus.

  8. 3 days ago · May 19, 2024. 18831. 8. Pentecost Sunday is one of the most ancient feasts of the Church, celebrated early enough to be mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles (20:16) and St. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians (16:8). It is the 50th day after Easter (if we count both Easter and Pentecost), and it supplants the Jewish feast of Pentecost ...

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