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Shavuos - Before Torah, You Are for Sale: Rav Yosef, the Calf, and the Marketplace Inside the Soul
Rav Yosef celebrates Shavuos with a third-born calf and declares: “If not for this day, how many Yosefs would there be in the marketplace?”
At first glance, it sounds like Rav Yosef is simply thanking Hashem that Torah made him into someone more than an average man in the street. But beneath the surface, Chazal are revealing something much deeper.
Without Torah, a person can be pulled apart by the many voices inside of him — desire, fear, ego, insecurity, ambition, pain, approval, and instinct. Each one claims to be the real “I.” That is the inner marketplace.
Matan Torah revealed that the…
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