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 Michael Medved

Countdown To Revelation

May 14, 2012 @ 11:41 am

In America, Israel and around the world, religious Jews are literally counting-down to a major festival that falls this year on Memorial Day weekend. Shavuot, known in English as "The Feast of Weeks" or "Pentecost," is as significant in Jewish tradition as Passover-and far more important than the minor festival of Hanukah.

Though Most Christians and many Jews remain unaware of it, a Biblical commandment requires counting aloud each one of the fifty days between Passover and Shavuot, which celebrates revelation of the Law on Mount Sinai. The counting process reminds us of the unbreakable links of liberation and law, freedom and responsibility-teaching that deliverance from slavery didn't mean release to follow your own inclinations, but freedom to serve God. Each day of the countdown is meant to bring us consciously closer to that service.

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  • Drool wrote...
    The Law in Our Great Country...
    May 14, 2012 1:59 pm
    Being the Constitution and the Constitutions making no such demands.
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  • SeattleNative wrote...
    Very cool
    May 15, 2012 10:37 am
    Thanks Michael.
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  • PricelessAsphalt wrote...
    Just a humble reminder:
    May 16, 2012 10:10 am
    Not everyone who listens to your show is a person of faith. Apparently KTTH is gradually becoming a decidedly religious station. (Ken Hutcherson's pleas for money to grow his ministry on 'secular radio' is one example.) I'm not denigrating faith nor discounting its importance in individual lives, but the constant religiosity is getting tiresome. Some of us would appreciate something in between militant atheism and fanaticism. (Are they really so very different?) I'm sure I'll be hate-flamed and told to go elsewhere (a great way to build a majority, by the way -- and a great way to live up to leftist expectations of religious followers). Just my $0.02.
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