"Feast of Weeks" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to beg of you to be sure to come home for the Passover. And you must know that Busie is to be congratulated. She is now betrothed. And if the Lord wills it, she is going to be married on the Sabbath after the Feast of Weeks. ...
— Jewish Children • Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich
... "Pentecost," occurs upon the sixth day of the third month, Sivan (June). It is called the Feast of Weeks because forty-nine days, or seven weeks, duly numbered, elapse between the second day of Passover, when (during the existence of the Temple) a sheaf of green barley was offered, and this festival, when two loaves made of the first flour of the wheat harvest were "brought before the Lord." ...
— Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and - Kabbala • Various |
