Shavuot | Mi-macharat Ha-Shabbat Revisited

KMTT - the Torah Podcast · May 4, 2023 · 36m

Shavuot | Mi-macharat Ha-Shabbat Revisited, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom

The fiercest intra-Jewish dispute in the first half of the first century CE was over control of the calendar. The flashpoint of this disagreement revolved around two words in Vayikra 23, where the Omer was to be offered ממחרת השבת. Whereas our tradition dictates that the "שבת" in question is the first day of פסח, regardless of which day of the week on which it falls, the sectarians held that "שבת" meant "Shabbat" and, therefore, argued that the Omer ought to be offered on a Sunday and, seven weeks later, Shavuot be…