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MiMachorat HaShabbat
Introduction
Vayikra 23 provides a complete list of all of the festivals of the year. For almost all of these holidays, the Torah opens by giving their calendrical dates, continues with the prohibitions of performing labor, and in some cases adds some of their unique laws. The lone exception is the holiday of the Bikkurim (or Shavuot) for which no lunar date is provided. Instead, this festival is prefaced by a lengthy description of the Omer offering and the fifty day count which links it to the Two Loaves offering. Only after all of this does the Torah tell us that the day of the Two Loaves offering should be proclaimed as a holiday:
