Shavuos is the day the world could never live without. The Talmud tells us that the Creator of the world said, “If the Jews don’t accept the Torah, I will have to destroy the world again.” Because the world without the Torah is G-dless, purposeless and hopeless. Every individual in his/her own little world has to ask himself or herself, “Have I received the Torah to such a degree that my world should not fall apart?”

Look at our civilized world with all its infinite knowledge: it’s a dead world. Peace without being connected to the Torah doesn’t last and has no meaning,

You know, when I see an anti-Semite, I’m sad. But when I see a Jew, who doesn’t know what it is to be a Jew. I feel destroyed and heartbroken. Every year a new Torah is coming from heaven. It’s the same Torah but so much deeper and so much more alive. What we didn’t do in a lifetime, we can do Seder night. This year, Seder night, we will be up all night learning, praying and singing, initiating a new world which cannot be destroyed, the big world of all mankind and the little world of you and me

The Torah is from Heaven. Not from a Heaven which is far from earth, but from a Heaven which is right here, the Torah Heaven. It’s not a light which can be darkened by darkness, it is the light of the Torah which turns the darkness into light.

On Shavuos, the Torah says, “G-d came down from Heaven.” On this night, in this early morning, G-d is coming to every individual Jew and through us, hopefully to the whole world, to put a little bit of Heaven into our lives, Please come and stay up with us all night until dawn. We can’t do without you! We need all of Israel and all of Israel with us. Please sleep the afternoon before and be ready!

May the light of Shavuos go with us all year! If you don’t know how to carry it, G-d is giving out shopping bags on request.

Love from Mount Sinai and Jerusalem.

New York, Sivan 5754

Reprinted from Cong Kehilath Jacob News

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