Parashat Shavuot

Parashat Shavuot

Pentecost

Exo 19:1–20:26
Lev 23:15–21
Deut 14:22–16:17

“You shall count for yourselves — from the morrow of the rest day, from the day when you bring the Omer of the waving — seven weeks, they shall be complete. Until the morrow of the seventh week you shall count, fifty days and you shall offer a new meal-offering to YHVH.” (Lev 23:15-16)

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Photo by Tyler Lastovich

Haftorah Shavuot

Eze 1:1–28,
Eze 3:12

“As for the likeness of the Chayos: Their appearance was like fiery coals, burning like the appearance of torches; it spread about among the Chayos; there was a brilliance to the fire, and from the fire went forth lightning.” (Eze 1:13)

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Photo by Ben McLeod

Brit Hadashah Shavuot
Acts 2:1–21,
Acts 2:37–41

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Photo by Robert Wiedemann

The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the LORD.” (Acts 2:20)