SHAVU‘OT AS FESTIVAL OF THE ETERNAL SABBATH
Shavu‘ot,
hebr. šābū‘ōt
(‘weeks’)
‘Pentecost’, is an ancient feast of the first wheat harvest in Israel.
During this feast the granting of Torah to Israel is commemorated,
as well as sending of the Holy Ghost to G-d's people who accepted
JHS as Messiah. It is celebrated on Sivan
6–7 in diaspora and on Sivan 6 in Israel. Entire
symbolism of Torah-commanded feasts becomes clear only on the level
of authentic Messianic Judaism, representing the whole process of
G-d's Covenants. Traditional Rabbinic (Halachian) Judaism,
positioning itself as a national religion of the Jews, is a fragment
of Jewish history and a religion formed after the disappearance of
the Temple Judaism. Today it pretends to represent the whole Judaism,
however negating those who have not accepted the Oral Torah, but
these are not only Messianic Jews, but also Qaraites. Enough to see
that it resigned to Judeo-Christian Jews naming
themselves messianic, although it should pretend to be messianic itself and
only itself, since Messiah is a Figure unable to be removed from
authentic Judaic faith. Even more: after many pseudo-messiahs
first had been accepted but later negated by rabbinical Jews, this practically
no more believable Figure became a symbol of a new religion which
changed Torah commandments through
commentaries making fulfilment of the
commandments elective even in the most important case: that of
purification with sacrifices. Thus the
rabbinic (Orthodox)
Messiah comes to restore the
Temple while G-d has already brought the Jews home from exile. What a
contrast to authentic Judaism of the time of coming
back from the
Babylonian captivity! Then the Jews came
back
first and foremost in order to rebuild the
Temple and fulfil all commandments concerning Temple sacrifices! –
In
1967 almost all rabbies of Israel asked Moshe Dayan to give keys of the
Temple Mount to Moslems... This is essentially a new religion which
cannot resolve all eschatologic enigmas of Torah including sense of
the festivals. |