WHY 50?
PENTE is Greek for the number 50. So what is Pentecost? Leviticus 23:15-21, describes a ‘Feast of Weeks’ or the ‘Counting of the Omer’ starting after the Passover, on the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, and lasting 50 days, or seven weeks, ending with Shavuot - the second of three major Jewish...