Reb Shlomo and Siwan
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.
- Shavuos: Putting a little bit of Heaven into our lives
- Shavuot: Vessels to contain G-ds Light
- Shavuot: Opening gates between heaven and earth
- Lag B’Omer, Shavuot and Kiddish Levanah: You should always have someone to tell your secrets
- Shavuot: The Holiness of Shavuot Night
- Vav: Truth and beauty
- Ruth: the soul that really died for people
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