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Shavuos Message (May 2006)

Shavuos, in certain ways, is the strangest of all our Holidays.  It takes the least amount of preparations.  It is the only holiday listed in all of Tanach which does not have a specific date listed.  For all other holidays, we are told that "on day [x] of month [y], you shall celebrate [z]".  For Shavuos, we are told that you will count seven weeks from Passover.

In fact, the corrupt deniers of our Oral Tradition in past schisms celebrated all other holidays on the same dates we use today, except for Shavuos, which they celebrated at a different time.  This was due to a misunderstanding which caused them to start the count of Sefira from the first Sunday after the beginning of Pesach (which resulted in the last day of the count always falling on the same day of the week!).