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The Holidays of Shavous with Health Insights and Inspiration · The Frum Health Club Podcast

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: Agadyantiv, happy Shavuas, and a good Shabbas.
• 0:05
  SPEAKER_00: So why is this holiday called Shavuas?
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_00: It has other names as well, like Matan Terra Senu, the giving of the Terah, and Chaga Katsir, the festival of harvest.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: But why do we refer to it as Shivus, which means weeks, when we just counted 49 days, and the Terah itself refers to it as seven weeks?
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: I heard a beautiful answer that you can apply in everything in life, including exercise.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: So when we count and refine one day, like Chesed Shib Chesed, that is nice, but the results are not clearly seen until we count a full series and reach chesed shibemachos.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_00: Then you look back and you start seeing results.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: Same thing in life.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_00: If you exercise one day, that's nice.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_00: But if you do it for seven weeks straight, then you see the results.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_00: The holiday of Shouz is the culmination of counting every single day, refining each level.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_00: And after seven weeks, Hashem sees that we are ready to accept the Terah because all of the progress we have made.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_00: Shuz also means oaths, that the Bine Israel and Hashem are coming together in a marriage ceremony, receiving the Tarah, and this happens every year on Shuas.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_00: And that is why we stand when reading the Asirz Hadibris to replicate the original event when the entire B'n'Israel stood.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_00: And this is why we encourage every single Jew, even infants, to come to Shool and hear the Asirs Hadibris.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_00: And the first word, Anuchi, the Gemarah says, stands for Anoh Nafsi Kisavis Yahavis, meaning I, Hashem, wrote it and gave the Terah, which conveys the message that Hashem invested himself into the words of Terah.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_00: Furthermore, the word Anuchi is actually an Egyptian word.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_00: And the reason why Hashem chose this instead of Ani is because Hashem wanted to make the Terah relatable to the Jews who just came out of Egypt and were familiar with that language.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_00: The message is that Tarah is relatable to everyone.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_00: And we just completed the cycle of Pirka Yabas, Ethics of Our Fathers, that we learn each Shabbos between Pesach and Shuas.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_00: And the first Mishnah is beautiful.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: It describes Mesha receiving the Tarah from Harsinai and giving it over to Yeshua and so on until the Anche Kinesis Hagadela, the great assembly, around 1,000 years later.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_00: One would think that this introduction, this Mishnah should be in the beginning of the Mishnahis by Bruchlis.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_00: Why is it by Perke Avis in the middle?
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is describing the ethics of our fathers, morals, and values, like greeting someone with a smiling face.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_00: And who is wise?
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  SPEAKER_00: One who learns from every person.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_00: And the reason is one may think that morality is something that humans establish, but that is incorrect.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_00: These are in the Torah, and all of the morals and values were transmitted to us on Harsini with all the other 613 mitzhs.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_00: And that is why we mentioned this specifically in the beginning of Perki Yavis.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_00: So this year in Israel, where they celebrate one day of Shus, they read Parshas Nasai on Shabbos, which has the Birchis Kayanim, the famous blessing of Yervarech, mentioned in the Parsha.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_00: And what I find so beautiful is that the yiddin in the diaspora also get blessed with Yevarechah, since we duchin on the second day of Shwoz, which is Shabbos.
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  SPEAKER_00: So worldwide, we are getting showered with the ultimate blessing of protection, grace, and peace from Hashem.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_00: And it is customary to eat milk and cheese on Shwuz, since milk reflects chesed, kindness.
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  SPEAKER_00: As we see, a mother nurses her baby, and the more milk the mother gives, the more she gets.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_00: And we learn and receive the Tarah, which is MS, truth.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_00: It should be preceded with kindness.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_00: As we see, the Tara was given to the women first, the base Yaqiv, and they too reflect the attribute of kindness.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_00: So as we celebrate the giving of the Terah, the absolute revolution of the fusion of the spiritual to the physical world, let us be kind to one another and be unified as they were at Harsina, with one heart.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_00: And as the Rebbe blessed us, that we should receive the Terah Bisimcha Ulipimius with joy and be able to internalize the Torah to our core.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Good jumptiv and good chavis.