Sivan (Siwan) is the ninth month of the civil year and the third month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar. According to tradition on the 1st of Sivan, 150 days after the rains stopped in the Great Flood, the raging waters which covered the entire earth calmed down the rate of one cubit every four days (Genesis 8:3; Rashi) . On the 6th of Sivan we celebrate Shavuot and the Yahrzeit of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of the Hasidic movement in Judaism. On the 17th of Sivan, Noah’s ark came to a rest.
Reb Shlomo taught us the some of us are so worried that our children should be religious. He taught us to first make Yidden out of them. The deepest holiness of us Jews is not only in the way we keep Shabbos and eat matza. The deepest holiness is how we pray for our children.
Here are some of Reb Shlomo’s teachings for the month of Siwan.
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Reb Shlomo Carlebach visited the concentration camps in Poland in 1989. He was asked how he could greet, shake hands with — and even hug — children of the perpetrators and even the perpetrators themselves. Reb Shlomo replied
“If we had two hearts like we have two arms and two legs, then one heart could be used for love and the other one for hate. Since I have but one heart, then I don’t have the luxury of hating anyone.”
Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laGvura “Remembrance Day for the Holocaust and Heroism” is a day of commemoration for the Jews who perished in the Holocaust. In Israel, it is a national memorial day observed on the 27th of Nisan which is in between the anniversary of the beginning of the most significant portion of the insurgency in the Warsaw ghetto uprising (14th of Nisan) and Yom Haazmaut (Israel Independence Day (5th of Iyar)).
The Shoah: The Holocaust and helping to rebuild a new world
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