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Rosh Chodesh
In the month of Sivan we celebrate thegiving of the Torah on the holiday of Shavuot
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Every person at your chuppah adds their soul energy—their particular aura and presence to the occasion. And only those who should be there will be there.
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As I prepared to celebrate the
holiday in quarantine, I knew that I would have to seek inspiration in order to
find meaning and pleasure in this lonely, unusual Shavuot.
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Dear Readers,
On Shavuot, we read: “In the third month after the exodus from Egypt, they came to the wilderness of Sinai ... and Israel encamped there before the mountain.” (Exodus 19)
The Mechilta comments: “Everywhere else it is written, ‘They traveled ... they encamped’ [in the plural]. That is to say ‘they traveled’ with dissenting opinions and ‘they encamped’ with dissenting...
The Bible states that G‑d revealed Himself to the entire nation at the same time! No other nation ever made such a claim, because it would be immediately exposed.
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