Shavuos - Preparation Is Key (Ep. 238)

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

It's retroactively for the 15th of Nissan, l'ilui nishmas Moshe ben Tzvi, aleha shalom, Avigdor's grandfather. And uh listen, this the the Torah that we do, and all of the wonderful Torah and mitzvahs and chassadim that the Frieds do, and their children and grandchildren, it should all be a zchus, of course, uh for all of the doros that has come down. Okay, this is going to be our Erev Shavuos podcast. So, uh it works out, I guess, in that sense that the yahrtzeit was on Pesach, and now we're almost at Shavuos, because as the Ramban says, you know, the whole Sefiras HaOmer is like one long chol hamoed. So, that's uh so that's uh hopefully uh it'll be that connection between them. But we come now to the Yom Tov of Shavuos. And when you think about it, it's kind of a strange name for a holiday, weeks. I mean, that doesn't make any more sense than, I guess, calling Sukkot days seven days to it, yeah? So, Shavuos is the 50th day after we counted seven weeks. Well, I guess, like we just said, according to the Ramban, maybe that makes sense because it's when long cholem o ain. But, it still seems a strange thing. The Torah doesn't call it, Shavuos, in Parshas Hamoadim. It calls it Yom Hachamishim, the 50th day. Which makes sense. That's when the Christians refer to it as Pentecost for the 50th day. We call it the holiday of weeks. Why Why is it called weeks? So, the Alshich Hakadosh says a very important point. He says, "Because you can't really say that Shavuos is,

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1. 1:00It's retroactively for the 15th of Nissan, l'ilui nishmas Moshe ben Tzvi, aleha shalom, Avigdor's grandfather.…
2. 5:40deliveries to take. And uh I would knock on the door. Mhm. Well, I would ring…
3. 10:50be pretty late at night. You go and you daven, you come back. You have your…
4. 15:29not. Uh, I don't know. But, anyway, so, uh, so, we're being matakin the fact that…
5. 20:34know, I read a biography of Teddy Roosevelt. And uh and he had boundless energy. He…
6. 25:10Chuka. It's a desire. I want it. What your preparation should have been was waiting anxiously.…
7. 30:18"Come, you want to see something?" And he takes me. It was going to be in…
8. 34:55where they bring two versions of Gamara. One is one Amora says Rebbe Yochanan said like…
9. 40:05go off and do great things. So, you know, uh Superman and Green Lantern don't just…
10. 44:42where you have to be din in the class course. There's a Russia where you should…

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