Greetings this Shavuot holiday evening!
This evening begins the Judaism version of Pentecost (50 days). It is called in Hebrew, Shavuot (weeks). This appointed time (mo’ed) is one of the Feasts of YHVH given in Lev 23. According to God through Moses to Israel, the holiday is to be on the 50th day — or the day after seven full Sabbaths — counting from the appointed time of First-fruits, which falls on the day after the Sabbath during the Passover and Unleavened Bread week. In other words, it is to always be on a Sonday, with the counting of the sheaves (omer) of the wheat to be harvested beginning on the day of First-fruits, or the day of resurrection, Yeshua being the first-fruits from the dead. So it is seven full weeks from the first-fruits resurrection, or the 50th day, counting that day. It is a jubilee of sorts. In today’s Judaism, the counting begins on the day after Passover, whatever day of the week that may be, and Shavuot always then falls on the 6th day of the third month of Sivan, which is tomorrow this year. (BTW, this year marks the END of the 5oth year/Jubilee of the liberation of Jerusalem — being the end of the 50th year, rather than marking the Jubilee year, since we are now going into the 51st year.)
Be that as it may, let us strive to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the Body of Messiah in hope of the fulfillment of the promise which the giving of the Holy Spirit and YHVH’s law anticipates.