Saturday, May 30, 2009

Shavuot

On the sixth day of Sivan in the Hebrew calendar is celebrated for 3,321 years the event of God giving the Torah to the Jewish People on the mountain named Sinai.

In the Midrash-Book of Metaphor says before creation God asked of the Jewish Soul to go down into creation and do the 613 Commandments that are housed in the first Five Books of the Torah; at the receiving of the Torah which is considered to be a marriage ceremony between God and the Jewish People, as explained in the Cabala–the Jewish Peopled promised to do the Commandments and God promised to bring Moshiach by the year 6000, the expiration of the Hebrew calendar in a few centuries.

Shavuot is celebrated by staying up all night to study the Torah. Many people read what is known as Tikun Shavout/Fixing Shavout because the people originally went to sleep so they could received the Torah with the purity of the soul, but Moshe had to go around and awake everyone because the Torah came more for the body than the soul.

The 613 Commandments of the Jewish People combined with the Seven Commandments given to the rest of the world equal 620–Keter/Crown. When we all do our part then God is crowned.

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