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Faith Q&A: What are the Jewish and Christian views of Pentecost?
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Kansas City Star
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May 26, 2004
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READER'S QUESTION: What are the Jewish and Christian views of Pentecost?
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Rabbi Mark Levin, Congregation Beth Torah, Overland Park, Kan.:
The Five Books of Moses prescribe three annual pilgrimage festivals (Leviticus 23): Passover, the Feast of Weeks corresponding to Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles, on which all Israelite males were to present themselves in Jerusalem to sacrifice before God. Each festival possesses an historical and an a...
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