New York – An Inspiring Shavuos To All Our Readers – Eruv Tavshilin

New York – As Shavuos approaches, VIN News would like to wish all of our honorable readers “ah gut yom tov!”—a pleasant and enjoyable holiday surrounded by family and friends.

Everyone is familiar with the simple, basic meaning of our ancestors’ declaration “na’aseh v’nishmah”—we will do and we will listen to everything that G-d says.

But VIN News would like to suggest a different interpretation—not “we will do and we will hear” but rather, “we will do” so that “we will hear.”

Sometimes, or even most times, you gotta know what you’re doing before you do it. Nishmah comes before naaseh.

But other times, you can only know what you’re doing by first doing it—by just jumping in, taking action and doing it.

In those cases, naaseh comes before nishmah—and not only that, the naaseh, the action, brings the nishmah, the understanding.

The message: When our fathers and mothers were confronted with the Torah, they didn’t first study it and then appreciate it, they didn’t first intellectually dissect it and then realize the moral supremacy of the life dictated by it. Rather, they first blindly embraced it—and then, by living it, they heard the message taught by it.

This Shavuos, let us understand our precious Torah by living it; let us arrive at nishmah through the vehicle of naaseh.

May we all have a meaningful and personally inspiring Shavuos. And, while we’re at it, let us understand the deeper meaning of bosor v’cholov… by enjoying that cheesecake.

**VIN News would like to remind its readers to remember to do an ‘eruv tavshilin’.
**Alternate Side Parking regulations will be suspended on Friday and Shabbos, May 29-30 for Shavuos. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
**We will be offline from May 28 7:00 PM, until May 30 9:30 PM