Pesach is a holiday that centers around meat and how it was that the Children of Israel were meat eaters while the Egyptians were vegetarians; Shavuot is a holiday that centers around both meat and grain together (it comes at the end of a fifty day count that stretches over the course of seven weeks from the first harvest of the barley (presumably the first grain to ripen) until the grain-edness of the economy has had a chance to take hold); and Succoth is a holiday that centers around grain and the fruit of the land, the harvest and the pri etz hadar of the three (not really four) species that unify the national experience geographically, climatologically, and militarily.
Succoth is really a holiday that marks a cultural transition from one form of social frame to another, and honors the fact that both are in some sense operating in the life of the people. It enables the future while respecting and preserving what is best in the past. Pesach, on the other hand, marks the transition of the people from one cultural context to a different, autonomous context. It is about how the people of Israel is distinct from its national neighbors.
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