Shavuos
Bamidbar-Shavuos – Destination Within the Journey
Why is the parsha of Bamidbar always read right before the holiday of Shavuos? What is the parallel between the journey of the Jewish people through the wilderness and the counting from Pesach to Shavuos? What is greater – the traveling and counting or reaching the destination? What is the paradox of counting or journeying…
Read MoreBehar-Bechukosai – 50,000 Years of the World
What is the ‘secret’ of the Shmitah and Jubilee years? How do they correspond to the 50,000 year cycle that the world will last for? How does the Yovel (Jubilee) correspond to Shavuos, which is on the 50th day? What is the difference between the concepts of six and seven (Moshiach ben Yosef and Moshiach…
Read MoreBimidbar – Counting Names
What is the concept of counting the Jewish people? How is it connected to counting from Pesach to Shavuos? Why do we specifically count the names of the Jewish people? Find out in this week’s parsha podcast. Running time: 20:56
Read MoreEmor – Counting from Pesach to Shavuos
What is the difference between Pesach (Passover) when we only eat Matza, as opposed to Shavuos when there is a special offering of Chametz (leavened bread)? What is the significance of the contrast between the haste of leaving Egypt versus the slow countdown to Shavuos? How does one find God even in places that seem…
Read MoreBimidbar – Counting the Uncountable
Why does the parsha of Bimidbar always come out before Shavuos? What is the concept of counting? Is counting a positive thing or a negative thing? If counting shows Hashem’s love for us, why do we find there is danger in counting? Why will we be uncountable in the times of Moshiach (the Messiah)? Find…
Read MorePesach – Pieces of Completion
What is the depth of the count from Pesach (Passover) to Shavuos? How were the Jews able to be redeemed through a merit that was only to be in the future – of receiving the Torah? What is the concept of the purification of the confusion of the imagination? How can one access a future…
Read MoreGut Yontiff!
Today is the sixth of Kislev, which corresponds to the sixth of Sivan – Shavuos. It is exactly fifty days since the second day of Succos. As per the midrash, it would have been a holiday today, but Hashem instead placed Shmini Atzeres at the end of Succos. Gut Yontiff!
Read MoreShavuos, MBY and MBD
What is the connection between Genesis and Shavuos? Why is Shavuos called the festival of the ‘giving’ of the Torah, and not the receiving? What is the secret of the twenty days that are not included in the sefirah count? What is the connection between King David and Shavuos? What is the connection to Yosef?…
Read MoreMaharsha Moed Katan 28
Hashem dropped another Maharsha onto me which I believe is extremely significant. It is worth seeing inside, and can be found in Moed Katan on page 28. I heard it said over at a Shalom Zachar this past Friday night, and yesterday in the morning, it hit me as to why I needed to hear…
Read MoreShavuos and redemption
What is the deeper significance of the custom to stay up all night learning Torah? Why did the Jewish people wake up late on the morning of receiving the Torah? What is the parallel to Yakov who also had a contrasting night of sleep and being awake? What is the connection to the future redemption?…
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