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Guest SpeakerNext Wednesday,
• 2:00-3:00 in C610
• Francis Landy: U of Alberta
• “Rotten Grapes Produce the Best Poetry: Isaiah 5.1-7, Rhetorical Entrapment and Intertextual Implication”
The Exodus Journey
• Escape from Egypt: Passover.
• Sinai: Giving of the Law: Shavu’ot.
• Wilderness: Sukkot.
Passover to Shavuot
• Time from leaving Egypt to arriving at Sinai where Moses and Israel were given the Torah.
• Time between is counted.
50 days between Passover and Shavu’ot
• “COUNTING OF THE OMER”– Second day of Passover
• OMER = unit of measure for grain
Counting of the Omer
• 7 weeks and 1 day = 50 days
• Time of partial mourning.
• Weddings etc. not allowed.
Shavu’ot
• Historical: God gives Torah
• Agricultural: “First Fruits” offering made to temple.
• June 5, 2003
• May 25, 2004.
Shavu’ot
• Customs:
• Have a dairy meal: Israelites were heading towards “a land flowing with milk and honey”
– Kashrut laws given at Sinai:
Tisha B’Av
• “Ninth of Av”. Usually in August
• Fast day (same basic rules as Yom Kippur)
• Book of Lamentations read in Synagogue.
New FestivalsBetween Pesach and Shavu’ot
• Yom HaShoah– Holocaust Memorial Day
– Celebrations for new state of Israel.
Festival Calendar:
• Autumn: High Holy Days / Sukkot
• Winter: dedication of temple
• Spring: Pesach / Shavu’ot
• Summer: Destruction of temple.
Who are the Jews?
• What is the history they tell themselves:
• Patriarchs• Exodus• Covenant• Land of Israel• Expulsion • Restoration• Diaspora.