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More than 60 synagogues will be open until dawn for the Tikkun Leil Shavuot service
Every year on Shavuot we renew our acceptance of the Torah, and G‑d “re-gives” it to us anew.
He talks with Himself, entertained by His own thoughts. The thoughts imply a background, which is the world. But the Torah, those are the thoughts themselves.
And we?
We are the self with whom He speaks.
The main source for this erroneous image seems to come from Christian art during the Renaissance . . .
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Anyone can be a shadchan. Just make the suggestion. Even if it does not work the first time, keep on trying.
"They shall make for Me a sanctuary, and I will dwell amidst them" (Exodus 25:8). The verse does not say, "and I will dwell within it," but "and I will dwell within them" -- within each and every one of them.
– Shelah (Rabbi Isaiah Horowitz, 1565-1630)
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