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The Torah Anytimes — torahanytime-shavuot-5785

Выпуск: The Torah Anytimes — torahanytime-shavuot-5785. Темы: kashrut, family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit, health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: кашрут, кошер, kosher, kashrut, כשרות, כשר, воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, шалом байт, брак, отношения, shalom bayit, marriage, שלום בית. this Tikkun, according to our mys- want Him, and may He, in turn, grant And the only thing we truly need tics, has the power to realign and us more Torah, more wisdom, more to bring is our desire, our yearning, elevate your soul, preparing it for a closeness this year. This second His message through the clear, pure “as the very heavens in purity”—a image, he explains, was Hashem’s heavens was, “I am with you in your breathtaking, luminous vision of way of showing the Jewish people joy.” And that, Rabbi Yeruchem the clear, radiant sky. The difference lies not The Hebrew word lechem (bread) offering to the Beis Hamik- in the amount of pleasure, but in shares a root with milchama (bat- dash in Yerushalayim known as the the discipline with which it is ap- tle), indicating that bread rep- Shtei HaLechem, the “Two Loaves” proached. And Shavuos, the day It’s widely understood that leav- Torah provides those boundaries, we received the Torah, is the mo- ened bread represents pleasure— and within them, a deeply pleasur- ment we gained the tools to master soft, risen, flavorful bread, as op- able life. Whether tion of eternal reward in the World the day we commemorate the giv- in Dallas, Texas or Tulsa, Oklaho- to Come; it is a celebration of the ing of the Torah carries a powerful ma, walk into almost any supermar- deeply enriching, meaningful, and message: the Torah is not a rejection ket and you’ll find a wide variety of joyful life that Torah offers us in this of physical pleasure. sher salami to Entenmann’s baked just elevate the soul; it sanctifies the There’s a common misconcep- goods, Torah observant Jews are not body, refines the pleasures of life, tion, especially among those ob- missing out on the pleasures of this and makes them truly fulfilling. So as we celebrate Shavuot, let us rah lifestyle is essentially a tradeoff: So why do we bring the Two remember: we are not commemo- religious Jews agree to forego all Loaves—leavened loaves—on rating a denial of the world, but an physical enjoyment in this world in Shavuos? We wor

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The Torah Anytimes

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1 июня 2025 г.

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10

Темы: kashrut, family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit, health_mind, parsha_commentary