Why is Shavuot Celebrated On The 50th Day? (7 Minutes)
On Shavuot we celebrate receiving the Torah. But we didn't get the Torah on 50th day, we got the Torah on the 51st day. Find out why we celebrate Shavuot on the 50th day. ________________________________________________________________________________________ To Donate and Support our Kiruv work please visit us at www.BeEzratHaShem.org. If you'd like to invite Rabbi Yaron Reuven to give a lecture at your synagogue, home or office please email Yaron@BeEzratHaShem.org to see availability and make arrangements. Rabbi Yaron Reuven is based out of Florida, but travels around the world to give lectures to different groups. Click here https://soundcloud.com/yaronreuven/sets/daily-chidush To Listen to our very popular "Daily Chidush" short audio series on soundcloud.com Join one of our interactive "Interesting Torah" Whatsapp groups to get daily messages of short Torah clips that can uplift your day by texting the number above. Please join our Facebook page Be'Ezrat HaShem page and join our group "Torah Lessons To Help Our Lives". This Group is solely about publicizing HaShem's holy Torah from my lectures as well as great Rabbi's such as Rabbi Efraim Kachlon, Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi, Rabbi Zamir Cohen, Rabbi Pinto, and anyone else that is teaching interesting and relevant Torah. We will also bring you some brand new lectures directly from a Kollel in Jerusalem you won't find anywhere else. Torah posts will be in Hebrew and English. There are plenty of places to find entertaining stories that sound great, but this group is about showing you Torah that can impact your life, hence the name Torah Lessons To Help Our Lives. If it's not impactul, then it won't fit in. I watch and read all that I personally post, so I promise to do my best to bring you only the best quality of Hashem's amazing Torah. The Torah is the only thing in the world that you can learn and have an outcome that makes you SMARTER, WISER, And a BETTER Human Being. If the Torah you're learning is no longer impacting your life in a positive way, than its time for a change. If you haven't learned Torah in a long time or ever, then its time to start friend. I guarantee you will enjoy the journey and life will never be the same, if you just give it a real chance. Kiruv and Kiddush Hashem is our #1 goal. So please feel free to contact me if you are interested in getting more FREE material. We would be have to send you Torach lecture DVDs, CD's and a Book for FREE to anyone that is serious about learning them. If you are far from Hashem and His Torah, our goal is to get help you get closer. Thank you for the opportunity and May Hashem bless you with a life full of Torah 00:00:00 Intoduction 00:01:41 Preparation Before Receiving 00:02:41 Searching for True Meaning 00:03:06 Torah and Action 00:04:27 Question on Mount Sinai 00:05:22 Purpose of Mount Sinai: Self-Improvement 00:06:21 Fixing Middot: More Important Than Torah? 00:06:51 Importance of Mussar
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1:41Meaning, in order to receive the Torah you have to prepare. You can't just receive something pure and treat it like you're supposed to, unless you've been prepared. You can't get married until you know who to be as a decent human being. If you do, then I guarantee you'll get divorced. You can't be a father until you understand the responsibility that comes with it. And if you're fifteen years old, you may find yourself unprepared for these responsibilities. then you realize that your son is going to be tortured. And eventually, he's going to be your father. Because you're going to be a 30-year-old mess, and he's going to be a 15-year-old with no choice. He's going to have to raise you. He's going to be the father all of a sudden. It happens a lot when the kids end up becoming the parents because the parents never had time to mature, and the kids have no choice but to mature. Meaning that in order to receive anything of any value, you have to prepare yourself if you plan on keeping it. נדע אם נשאל את עצמנו על המשמעות האמיתית של המילים. אם נמשיך לבדוק בכל ספר מה אנחנו רואים, האם שם נמצא את התשובה האמיתית? נוכל לראות שכל עוד אנחנו ממשיכים לחפש, נגלה את הכיוון הנכון.
3:06גאות בין אחד הגודשים או בלימן דאיה דאלר איז גד. משהו, איזו דעת נחמדה. הרעיון הוא שטוב לבקר. ואין ספק שאנשים עושים לנו את התורה, כל עוד פעולה. הוא לא עשה לנו את התורה עד כאן, הוא עושה לנו את התורה כל עוד זו פעולה. אבל למה אנחנו נמצאים בפעולה ה-50, אם עשינו את התורה ב-51? Rabosai, hasviva lama? Biglal sherabosai... Order slipi people dat dike dat dat tzaddikim ven in reality dat is far far far far far far far far far far far far far far far far far far far.
4:27The haggadot continue, adding to what the Maharsha preceded, and the Magen Avraham preceded. In your Pesach Haggadah, there's a section when we say Dayenu. This is the section—Dayenu, that's already correct—if you take us out of Egypt and there's nothing else. If You gave us all the miracles and nothing else, and split the ocean and nothing else, it would have been enough. If You took us to Mount Sinai and nothing else, the Sages have a question about that. What do you mean? It would have been enough taking us to Mount Sinai and nothing else, like, don't give us the Torah. What are we going to do at Mount Sinai without Torah? It's a good question. I never asked it. I only learned it this week. What am I going to do at Mount Sinai if I'm not going to get the Torah? Why did I go there? We learned from the Maharsha. The Maharsha said, why do we go to Mount Sinai? To clean ourselves up, to learn some mussar, to refine our middot, to fix ourselves. That would have already been enough. That would have been enough chesed of Hashem to let us do teshuvah already, teaching us that it's even more important to fix our bad middot, than to learn Torah.
5:53ובכל אופן, אין מידה טובה יותר מתקון המידות. But fixing your middot is more important. Why? Because the Gemara specifically says, "a talmid chacham with middot ra'ot, a talmid chacham with bad character traits, neveilah serucha tova mimenu." A carcass in the middle of the street is better than him. Why? Because he was supposed to fix himself as a result of the Torah. Now he learned Torah and he still didn't fix himself? There's no hope for this person. A carcass is better than him. אז זה אחד מהלמידות הגדולות שלמדנו מבחינתם, מבחינתם של שבועות, על איך זה קריטי ללכת למוסר. כי זה החוק אצלנו, בשבילנו להגיד את זה. זה החוק אצלנו, אין חוקים אחרים. זה קטן, זה דברי, זה בצד שלך, זה מגיע לך, אתה יודע, לצעוק לך עוד ועוד, אבל זה החוק אצלנו.
