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.
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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.
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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.
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does any one have dvar torah to share with us on shavous please..im empty handed
kabalos hatorah bsimcha ubpnimius to all of klaal yisroel and may we be zoche to the geulah shlaimah bkarov mamash!
Please learn on behalf of a Talmid Chochom in a coma; (if you can learn a bit extra in his zechus, it would be extremely helpful;) Akiva Shamai ben Ahava Rivka. Thank you.
honorable readers “ah gut yom tov!”—a pleasant and enjoyable holiday surrounded by family and friends
VIN and the rest of us should also remember and wish a “gut yom tov! to the less fortunate amongst us, who will not be surrounded by family and friends.
May we all be zoiche to Kabolas hatorah bsimcha ubipnimiyos k’ish echad b’lev echad on the yahrzeits of Dovid Hamelech and the Baal Shem Tov May we be zoiche to greet Melech Hamoshiach!!!!!!!!!!!
What’s the deal with the round luchos! It was square?
What’s the deal with the round luchos! It was square?
according to all opinions it was square the only question is how tall and thick it was, the round Luchos come from the pictures the way the Christians drew Moses on Mt. Sinai. theres no source any where for round Luchos and goes against years of Torah and Halacha.
I heard it in a shiur I think from rav berkowitz on 107.9 radio.. This idea was new to me too but the luchos have bean traditionaly pictured in this way by koshere yidden for hundreds of years, many very old shuls and in many printed sefarim both european and sefarde the luchos were heart shaped. We must note that is impossible to picture the luchos mamash like they were anyway because they were a nes..
God gave us square liches and he wants ourselves (the talmid chuchem) to cut the corners according to the environment of to day
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