Though there is no holiday-specific commandment associated with Shavuot (i.e., “weeks,” or Pentecost), there is the general commandment given to every Jew: “Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your childrens children - how on the day that you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so (Deut. 4:9-10). Indeed, the revelation at Sinai is regarded as the most momentous since creation: “For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of. Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live? …To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD is God (יהוה הוּא הָאֱלהִים); ein od milvado (אֵין עוֹד מִלְבַדּוֹ) - there is no other besides him” (Deut. 4:32-5).
Posted on: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 02:41:04 +0000
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