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TexasProgresive

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1. I just connected 2 facts that I knew
Thu May 21, 2015, 09:28 PM
May 2015

Shavuot celebrates the reception of the Torah- the Law.
Pentecost celebrates the reception of the Holy Spirit.

The first commemorates the foundation of the religion of Israel, and Pentecost the foundation of the Christian Church. The Law and then the Spirit.

edit to add: If anyone cares, I wrote the religion of Israel and not Judaism because in the beginning it was the religion of all 12 Hebrew tribes and not just Juda. Picky I know.

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