Looking at my day planner, I was pleasantly surprised to find out today was Shauvot! The Festival of First Fruits or the Festival of Weeks. It was a celebration right after wheat harvest in Israel... which seems somewhat of a coincidence considering if it hadn't rained these last couple of days my dad would be harvesting his wheat currently.
According to tradition, this holiday celebrates God giving the Torah to Moses. It occurs every year, 7 weeks after Passover... the traditional amount of time that the Israelite wandered in the wilderness before Moses went up Mt. Sinai.
In Christian tradition, the Pentecost is almost equivalent. Of course, this year, the two would have been celebrated on two totally different days... even months. However, I was kind of impressed with a parallel that I saw. Shauvot celebrates the anticipation of God giving the people of Israel is word in the Torah. Pentecost celebrates God giving his word in the Holy Spirit. I thought that was kinda cool.
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