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There is one It is in this light that we can understand the Talmud interesting detail from that narrative that we only find Yerushalmi that warns us that we will be held in Parshat VaEtchanan, where the scene is retold by accountable for every permissible enjoyment that Moshe in retrospect. After reassuring the people that exists in this world from which we could have the Sinai experience was a success, in that it instilled partaken but chose not to. (In the 19th century Rabbi within the people a fear of God, Hashem gives Moshe Samson Raphael Hirsch made famous the spirit of one more message, “Lech Emor Lahem: Shuvu this passage when he explained his very un-Rabbinic Lachem L’Ohaleichem.” Finally in Vaetchanan we are trip to the Swiss Alps: He explained that he was told of the ending to the scene at Mt Sinai. The people worried that after he died, God would ask him “So, were told to go back to their tents. Samson, did you see my Alps?!”) Rabbi Yitzchak Menachem Weinberg (Tolner On Shavuot we celebrate our receiving the Rebbe of Bayit Vegan) explains that this directive is Torah, not as a one-time occurrence but as a gift that the key to understanding the purpose of Matan Torah dramatically changed the lives of our ancestors and and what exactly it is that we are celebrating on continues to make Jewish life distinct, enriched and Shavuot, Zeman Matan Torateinu. Rabbi Weinberg enriching. On Shavuot we are celebrating not just the notes that prior to Matan Torah, the only known way events at Sinai, but the After-Party: the fact that to achieve holiness was through acts of asceticism; Matan Torah created the possibility for us to live separating oneself from the material and physical normal and holy lives, that everything we do can be world. This continues to be the model of many of the imbued with holiness and we must not divorce world’s religions, that expect their spiritual leadership ourselves from the world in which we live. to be removed from the world and view the physical in constant struggle with the spiritual. Bnei Yisrael The Sanzer Rebbe (Divrei Chaim) explained: were commanded to prepare with expressions of Kol Yisrael Yesh Lahem Chelek L’Olam Habah asceticism to highlight this point - be celibate, purify (Sanhedrin): every Jew has a share in the World To yourself, create boundaries and restrictions - for this Come. But not everyone has a share in Olam Hazeh. is the only way to achieve holiness in the world as you Everyone appreciates the spirituality inherent in The know it. World To Come. Not everyone appreciates the spirituality latent within This World. We must It is only through the revolution of Matan Torah appreciate the great gift that God gave us at Sinai - that a new worldview was introduced to Bnei Yisrael: the ability to live holy yet normal lives, the mandate to “Shuvu Lachem L’Ohaleichem.” Revelation at Sinai partake and enjoy everything that this world offers - was never meant to be a stand-alone event. From this and do so as religiously significant activities. point on, the Jews were now tasked with taking the inspiration of Sinai and applying it to the ordinary lives “Everyone agrees that on Shavuot we need that they would be living in their tents - ordinary lives lachem” (Pesachim 68b). On other holidays it might that now had the potential to be imbued with holiness be okay to focus exclusively on the spiritual and through everything that they did, inspired by the letter ignore the physical enjoyment associated with and the spirit of the Torah. holidays. But not on Shavuot. 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One of the things that we tried community. As a result, we face numerous challenges to do this past year was change the format of the Sisterhood. Instead of a President and VP, we wanted to have just one board. A group of due to that growth. One of those challenges is that of like-minded women, dedicated to providing activities and events for a constant need for more space. We have added the shul. We wanted to make the Sisterhood a place where anyone space to the shul campus a few times. The original who wanted to join could find a role. Though it wasn’t easy & there house was expanded into a large building with our were times each member of the board just wanted to walk away from current sanctuary. Then we added the building on the the volunteer position she had signed up for, we stuck it out.