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face=Arial>From: Akiva Miller via Avodah
<avodah@lists.aishdas.org><BR><BR><BR>>> But the bottom line is the
the Torah says Shavuos occurs 50 days after<BR>Pesach. If you know Pesach, then
there is absolutely no uncertainty<BR>about Shavuos. <<<BR><BR>Akiva
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<DIV>In the days when they kept two days Pesach because they didn't know
when Rosh Chodesh had been, perhaps you can say that by the time Shavuos rolled
around, the messengers had arrived to tell them when Rosh Chodesh Nissan (and
therefore when Pesach) had been so by then they knew for sure when Shavuos
was. But of course we still keep two days of Pesach until now, as
we've been discussing, despite the fact that we no longer have a safeik about
the date.</DIV>
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<DIV>So your statement, "If you know Pesach, then there is absolutely no
uncertainty" is not really true or maybe is true but not relevant. After
all, didn't you start counting Sefira on your [second] Seder Night? Was
that not a stira -- counting sefira at the seder? After all, we're
supposed to start counting "mimacharas haShabbos" -- the day AFTER yom tov,
i.e., the first day of chol hamo'ed. So "fifty days after Pesach" turns
out itself to be a slightly slippery concept.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff></FONT><BR><FONT color=#0000ff><STRONG>--Toby
Katz<BR>t613k@aol.com</STRONG></FONT><FONT lang=0 color=#ffffff size=2
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