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Is Shavuos the most important Jewish holiday?

1.6K views · May 24, 2023

Rabbi Shais Taub

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a relationship is a two-way street and that includes our relationship with Hashem for our people that relationship began at the Revelation at Sinai which we commemorate on the anniversary of that day every year on the holiday we call shuis so in this video we're going to be talking about how to take that relationship seriously get into the head and heart space of recommitting to that relationship and allowing Hashem to choose us and commit to us check it out is known by four names in fact the villagon says that it's Russia Davis the word schwoz is an acronym for the names by which the antiv is known uh the shin is shavuas obviously that one's the easy one base is the day of the first fruits the iron is at Ceres a day of holding back and the tough is Torah Matan Taylor the Schwarz is the celebration of the giving of the Torah at Sinai on the sixth day of Sivan asks a question he says what the meaning of the name at Ceres you know shavuas means weeks so that's a simple meaning is the culmination of seven weeks when is Shores the Mitzvahs count seven weeks and then celebrate your social weeks that didn't make sense it's a culmination of a period of weeks be couldn't that makes perfect sense because we couldn't the first fruits were actually brought sure so that also the correlation is very obvious like we said the date of the date of matantara coincide but what's the meaning of atse what does that serious mean ades means just

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  1. 0:00a relationship is a two-way street and that includes our relationship with Hashem for our people…
  2. 4:10you don't have the seven days now it's interesting because in the times of the base…
  3. 8:46chose us and we chose him there's an old uh funny poem how art of God…
  4. 13:27me is that a rebel knows who I am the rebel knows my my nishama and…
  5. 18:04will be to you whatever you need us to be and he wrote a blank check…
  6. 22:51is for the rest of your life which is more demanding now if you think about…
  7. 27:28that that for the rest of our lives we're gonna live according to God's rules that's…
  8. 32:12about the spectacle and we Overlook the quiet unassuming commitment so the warrior gets all the…
  9. 36:54he saw it as like we don't call it charity we call it sadaka why because…
  10. 41:31at the very end of his life it was it was imposed upon him he always…

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