There’s no holiday like the holiday of Shavuot. The Jewish nation prepares, not just 30 days before the holiday, but seven weeks before.
Every day we’re counting. Every day we’re anticipating. Every day we’re ready to get closer to the great kiss of Mount Sinai, to the great infinite gift of the Torah.
The day is called יום המקוה day of the great longing, day of the great journey, the day that heaven and earth waited for. The day the Jewish nation waited for. And the day that was longing for God’s great light will descend down from the heavens above via the Torah, His will, His wisdom is embodied in the Torah, and been given as a gift to the Jewish people.
Sometimes with that great gift, and that great kiss, and that great wedding commitment, there’s also sometimes the idea that the Torah has to stay just up in heaven and it’s some lofty concept, a spiritual concept that has no connection to the everyday life.
We know that every month has a fixing, and the fixing of this month Sivan is a fixing of the feet. The fixing of walking. We’re walking towards Mount Sinai. We’re walking and our feet stood at that very, very mountain.
During this time, we have to remember the angels didn’t want to give the Torah to the Jewish nation. They said, what connection could a human being have to such a lofty spiritual light? Moshe fought and said, don’t you understand the purpose of the Torah is not to stay up above, the purpose of the Torah is to penetrate down into our everyday life.
Therefore Moshe Rabeinu went up and argued with the angels until eventually the Torah was brought down. עלית למרום שבית שבי
We should be privileged this Shavuot not just that God gives us the Torah but we also get vessels to receive it, to receive it on an intellectual level, on an emotional level, but also down to the world of action and to be able to receive the Torah to walk with it, to go with it.
The Torah should be our guide and a map and a blueprint to walk the desert, to walk, to walk the desert, to walk the streets of the world.
Not just to sit in the house of the beit midrash but to be the Torah of how to walk with the Torah and to go with it in every aspect of our life.
I am looking forward to seeing every one on Mount Sinai. Ish echad, b’lev echad, one man, one heart, to be able to have that unification, to be able to have the vessel to receive this great infinite light.
Hag Shavuot Sameach, Shabbat shalom
