I dedicate this post to my beloved Abba . May HaShem Forever Bless his dear precious Neshoma and Give him rest in Gan Eiden and Shamaim .
This Shabbos comes out on the Second Day of Shavuos . Shavuos starts on Yom Shishi and continues , in the diaspora , into Shabbos , as the Second day of Yom Tov . It was on the 6th of Sivan , on the day of Shavuos , that our special Dovid Ha Melech passed away , and so we read the book of Ruth on the second day of Shavuot in the diaspora , which is , this year on Shabbos . May Dovid Ha Melech's Neshoma be truly Blessed for peace in Shamaim .
It was on the day of Shavuos , That HaShem , after holding the Torah and waiting for 26 generations since Adam , Revealed Himself On Har Sinai and Gave us the Ten Commandments . We arrived at the Wilderness of Sinai on the 1st day of Sivan and Received The Revelation From HaShem and The Ten Commandments , on the 6th of Sivan , which was a Shabbos at the time . HaShem Chose Har Sinai , as the Mountain On Which To Come Down To us , as it was the most humble of Mountains . When the other mountains heard that HaShem Was Going To Come Down On a mountain , they all clambered to be the Mountain that HaShem Should Choose , but Har Sinai did not , feeling itself unworthy to be the Mountain For HaShem To Come Down On . The other Mountains , had been used through different times for other nations' idol worship , but Har Sinai had not , and so , HaShem Chose Har Sinai as His Place Of Revelation . Har Sinai , in Torah , actually has been called by five different names . It has been called Sinai , for on it , was the thornbush , where HaShem First Called Moshe , ( In the voice of his Father Amram ) , to Speak To Moshe about going to Mitzrayim , when HaShem Told Moshe to take off his shoes , for the ground on which he was standing , was Holy Ground . HaShem at that time , Had Spoken To Moshe For seven days . In Hebrew , the thornbush is " S'neh " and seeing that it was on this very Mountain that the Ten Commandments were to be given , the Hebrew Letter Yud ( which is ten in Gematriah ) was added to the word ' S'neh ' and so did " Sinai " become the name of this Mountain .
This Mountain was also known as " Tzin " because on it , the " Tziva / Mitzvot " - " Commandments " were Given .
This Mountain was also Called " Kadeish , " for on it , a most " Kadosh " - " Holy " Revelation Took Place , Where HaShem Revealed Himself On it And Gave us The Holy Torah .
This Mountain , was also called " Kedeimos " from the root " Kedem " which means " from of old and ancient times , " for this Mountain , was set from the time of the beginning of Creation , By HaShem Knowing it would be humble , to be The Mountain on which HaShem Would Reveal Himself .
It was also called " Paran " for within this word , is the word " P'ru , " which means " to be fruitful , " for on this Mouintain , Would HaShem's Fruitful Laws Be Given , that can bring us to Shamaim .
HaShem Told Moshe to have us purify ourselves for two days before Shavuos , and so Moshe , knowing HaShem's Inner Intentions , had us purify ourselves for three days .
The people wanted to hear HaShem Speak Directly To them and HaShem Granted their request . HaShem Lifted the Mountain Above our heads And Asked if we will keep His Torah . We answered at first " Na' aseh " - " We will do . " At a later time , we answered " Na'aseh Ve Nishmah , " - " We will do and we will listen , " first saying we will do , first , before we even heard what we are accepting . Such was our Faith and Love in HaShem . The other nations were also offered The Torah . Amalek refused It because they would have to keep the Commandment of not killing . Ishmael refused It because they would have to keep the Commandment of not stealing . The other nations were also offered It and each nation first wanted to see what was in It first and each nation found some Law they rejected . HaShem Holding the Mountain Above our heads , Gave us choice of how Important is the decision of Keeping The Torah . Had we rejected It , Creation would have ended , for Creation , and HaShem's Torah , are hand in hand . One means the other , for Creation , That HaShem Created , Is to be the place where HaShem's Torah is to be kept .
On the night before Shavuos , the people had fallen asleep , and were not standing ready in the morning , when HaShem Was Going To Reveal Himself , and so , through the generations , Jews learnt Torah throughout this night , for , on that night before , they had fallen asleep . In the morning of the day of Shavuos , fifty days after leaving Mitzrayim , and purifying themselves through the Omer Period , of the 49 levels of Tum'a that was Egypt , on that fiftieth day , the people were awoken with thunder and lightning and a heavy cloud on Har Sinai and the sound of the Shofar , so powerful , that the very Earth shuddered . Animals far off went into labor , the Earth Worldwide , shook and the very Air suddenly became silent at the Introduction By HaShem , When HaShem Came Down and Pronounced the first word " Anochi ' at the beginning of the Ten Commandments , for at HaShem's Pronouncement Of That First Word , the Trees stopped rustling , the animals became totally silent and the very air arround us , stopped moving and blowing . When HaShem Bent Shamaim Heaven down so that it touched Earth on Har Sinai , so that Heaven actually came down and touched Earth , The World Stood Completely still , nothing moving , When HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , Came Down To Meet His Chidlren of Israel . Not a single leaf moved or rustled . The nations at the time , ran to their prophet Bilaam and asked him what is happening , for they feared another Mabul - Flood , and Bilaam told them that the World has gone silent and everything in it , for the honor and respect of The Creator HaShem , Who Has Now Come Down , To Give His Torah And Reveal Himself , To His People . Moshe stood higher on the Mountain , then Aharon lower and the kohanim to be and elders lower still . Moshe brought the people forward , to meet G-D . Moshe Spoke and the people saw that he was Answered By HaShem With A Voice . And so , HaShem Descended On Har Sinai .
The Ten Commandments contain 620 letters , which points to the 613 Mitzvos encumbent on a Jew and the 7 Noachide Laws . At the revelation on Har Sinai , every Jew past present and still to come , including righteous Gairim too , were also present at The Revelation . The very fact that we said " Na'aseh ve Nishma , " - " We will do and we will listen , " is also a hidden showing that " We will do , " refers to the Torah She ' Bichtav , " - " The Written Torah " and " The Torah She ' Be ' Al Peh , " refers to the " Oral Torah , " with all its Mishnayos , Talmud and explanations , that were all Given , to Moshe and us .
How Special that This Holy Day on which HaShem Revealed Himself And Gave us His Ten Commandments , was The Shabbos Day . A Day totally to be devoted to HaShem . So should we always do .
When HaShem Spoke , we all could hear and see His Voice and as Torah Tells us , We all stood . This means that HaShem Healed all the blind , the deaf and those who couldn't stand , for as Torah Says , we all Saw , Heard and Stood . We were all put in the position of prophets , with great holiness , when we experienced G-D . In seeing HaShem's Voice , we all witnessed , our entire people , how HaShem's Voice Came From Him , In The Form of Fire Trails That encircled the entire camp , through each and every one of us , returning to HaShem . HaShem , At First , Spoke All The Commandments , All Ten , at once , in a single Speaking , a feat , that no one else but HaShem could perform , each Commandment , Coming out at the exact same instant , that every other Commandment Came out . Thereafter , Did HaShem Relay Each Commandment Separately , One By One . To each person , HaShem Gave Each Commandment , in the way that person could understand it and get the same understanding as every other person , so that all the people , got the same undwerstanding , at the same time , but HaShem Allowed for each person's different level , yet each person still got the same understanding . With each Commandment Given , HaShem Gave Also , To each person , The Explanations and Depth and Intricacies to each Law , that our present day Mishnayos give , so that each Law was fully explained in its entirety , to each person , so that each person would get an equal understanding .
HaShem Gave the First Two Commandments With His Own Voice To us all , but because of our spiritual level being so far below Moshe's , we actually expired and died , where our souls left our bodies . HaShem Had To Revive us all , With the Dew of Revival , That HaShem Will Use , at the End of Days , At Techias Ha Meisim . The people begged Moshe to please relate the other Commandments himself , From HaShem , for we couldn't take it ourselves , the power of HaShem's Almighty and Neverending Forever voice , and so , the remaining Eight Commandments , were related from HaShem , through Moshe . HaShem Told Moshe that He Had Spoken to us directly so that we may always have the Fear of HaShem on our Faces and keep The Commandments .
Even When HaShem Wrote the Ten Commandments On The Tablets , that too was Miraculous From HaShem , for the words , actually floated within The Tablets . Some Hebrew letters , are completely round , like the Samech and the Mem , and they never touched The Tablets within , but floated within The Tablets . Also Miraculously , The Wording within the Tablets , read the same correct way , from both sides of the Tablets , which ever side , one was facing , the writing , was always facing the correct way , when reading it .
HaShem Is All Powerful , And So Are His Words , that not even solid Stone can stop . So , HaShem's Words are Forever , Continuing Through time , From that day , and beyond , to our time and into the Forever . HaShem's Words From then , are still continuing and even today , we sometimes ask a question , and the answer comes to us , sometimes , from the very words that were continuing , from what was Spoken then .
As I have said before , seeing that nothing can stop HaShem's Powerful Almighty Voice , HaShem's Voice thus Does not have an echo , for nothing can stop , halt or rebound His Almighty Powerful Voice .
This Shabbos and the day before , that is the Day we received HaShem's Almighty And Beautiful Revelation , are days of great Holiness . If we really and truly put the physical aside , and let ourselves Daven to HaShem as deeply as we can , we can still feel HaShem's Forever Traveling Words , Reaching us Through the Centuries and Bringing us Home To Him . So this Shabbos and this Shavuos , let us take our souls back to that very day , which in HaShem's Truth and which is True Reality , we are still Standing Before HaShem , at the foot of Har Sinai , and let us acknowledge these Ten Commandments , which will take us back to HaShem's Original Creation , That HaShem Created With Ten Pronouncements and this time , renew our Words of Following HaShem Totally , and so , bring ourselves back onto the path that HaShem Intended for us , where after that First Shabbos , we would have walked into the Eternal Shabbos Forever , so can we thus return to Gan Eiden Shamaim , and let us totally give ourselves over to our Creator and Stand before Him , with total Humility and Love and become one again and forever with our Beloved HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem , The Holy One Blessed Be He .
I wish HaShem With Utmost Faithful And Total Deep And Forever Love , A Very Beautiful And Special Shabbos Kodesh and Good Yom Tov Shavuos With Love , and to all my fellow Jews , a Very Beautiful and Special and Blessed Shabbos Kodesh and Good Yom Tov Shavuos with Love .
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