Shavuot: Opening gates between heaven and earth
On Pesach as much as we are celebrating, we are celebrating only what happened to us Jews. Pesach is, naturally, a Jewish affair.
But Shavuot has changed the whole world in the most unbelievable way. Because on Shavuot G-d opened gates between heaven and earth. Until Mount Sinai there was no bridge between heaven and earth. On Shavuot heaven came down to earth. Each time we do something good, we bring more heaven into the world. So the closeness of us Jews is to fill the world with G-d’s heavenly light.
Our holy rabbis reveal to us that although the rest of the world didn’t show up at Mount Sinai, didn’t hear G-d’s voice, they all heard the echo. You know what a good Jew is? A Jew is someone who is the microphone for G-d’s voice. The real Jew is somebody who has G-d’s microphone in his heart to let the world hear the most most beautiful echo of G-d’s voice. Let it be clear to us that in spite of all the evil in the world that wants to disconnect the earth from heaven, our microphone is getting stronger by the minutes You know what the Six Million did in the gas chambers? They put new batteries into our microphones.
I have the privilege a little bit to see the world. There is an awakening in the world. People want more than to hear just G-d’s echo — they want to hear G-d’s voice. So the second day of Shavuot we read the story of our holy mother Ruth who is a messenger from the whole world to Jerusalem. She opened a bridge between the echo and the voice. I would like to be there — you, me, and all our children — when the whole world will come to Jerusalem. Then we’ll hear G-d’s voice again. But then it will be more than just hearing G-d’s voice. We will BE G-d’s voice. When you love somebody the most, when you see them you hear them, when you hear them you see them.
New York, Sivan 5752
Reprinted from Cong Kehilath Jacob News
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