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The Trajectory of the Holiday of Shavuot.

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Rabbi Aaron L Raskin

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today we are going to talk about the holiday of shavuous which we're going to be celebrating this coming sunday and monday and as we've stated over the last few weeks it's very important that you go to the shul this coming sunday to hear the ten commandments what is the holiday of shavu is all about what is the meaning of god giving us the torah and sinai in the portion of emma it says you shall count for fifty days and on the fiftieth day it will be at sedes will be a day that one is not allowed to work it doesn't say anything about the giving of the torah on the holiday of shavuos how do we know that on this day 50 days after passover or 50 days after we count the omer starting from the second day of passover that we celebrate the holiday of matantora the giving of the torah this is actually from the talmud you shall me the jerusalem talmud it says over there that on the day of atseres we bring a sacrifice and pertaining to the sacrifices of atheres the torah does not use the word it does not use the word sin says the gomorrah because we accept it upon ourselves the yoke of the torah it is considered in the eyes of god as we never sinned so from here we derive that the day of atheres the 50th day of the omar is the holiday of matanto the giving of the torah now this took place according to the quoted jewish law on the sixth day of the month of civil

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  1. 0:00today we are going to talk about the holiday of shavuous which we're going to be
  2. 2:40yet according to our rabbis it was the sixth day of the month of siva and
  3. 5:22give us insight to the meaning of the holiday of shavuos we begin with the madrish
  4. 7:59and he had a big restaurant and people wayfairs would come from all over the world
  5. 11:11but also his kingshop his king his kingship is eternal so number one it was complete
  6. 13:52so the relationship between a king and the the citizens is one that is inseparable and
  7. 16:36chicken and all of a sudden it became the best chicken in the world and my
  8. 19:55the opportunity to go up into heaven like elijah the prophet just like elijah the prophet
  9. 22:37and to move ahead and forge ahead to become a trailblazer and acquire new heights and
  10. 25:22all of a sudden he said the entire room turned dark pit's black you couldn't see

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