השיעור הועבר ע"י הרב אורי כהן
שיעורים נוספים של המרצה ניתן למצוא
כאן
The Mystery:
Rabbi Shmuel Goldin,
“Unlocking Sefer Vayikra – Mysterious Majesty.”
A series of enigmas surround both the festival of
Shavuot, introduced for the first time in this parsha
[Emor], and Revelation, the historical event with
which Shavuot is associated.
1) Although the rabbis identify Shavuot as Zman
Matan Torateinu, the anniversary of the giving of our
Torah, no actual connection between the holiday and
Revelation is made in the text. Shavuot, in fact,
emerges as the only one of the three pilgrimage
festivals (Pesach, Shavuot and Sukkot) for which no
historical foundation is recorded in the Torah.
2) At no point does the Torah mention an independent
calendar date for the festival of Shavuot. Most often,
this holiday is identified as the endpoint of the Omer
count. The festival’s very title, Shavuot (literally
“Weeks”) derives from the celebration’s position as the
culmination of the seven-week Omer period.
On one occasion (Bamidbar 28:16-39), in a series of
passages clearly identifying the holidays by their
calendar dates, Shavuot is again the glaring exception,
with even the festival’s relationship to the Omer period
omitted. In that case, Shavuot is mentioned without
any calendar reference at all.
3) The Torah also fails to pinpoint the specific date of
the onset of Revelation at Sinai. The text, in fact,
seems to deliberately go out of its way to avoid any
clear dating of this event. {See next source.}
4) Finally, in contrast to other festivals, no unique
observance is associated in the text with the holiday of
Shavuot (all-night learning sessions are a minhag, a
custom, and not biblically or even rabbinically
mandated). This festival is governed only by the
generic laws common to all biblical holidays.
Why does so much mystery surround the festival of
Shavuot and the commemoration of Revelation?
Shouldn’t the single most important formative event in
Jewish history be clearly dated and uniquely
celebrated?
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| 12/05/13 |