Shavuos: Every Yid Counted for Matan Torah

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Why is Parshas Bamidbar always read before Shavuos? The Mechaber puts the parsha of the kelalos and then Bamidbar before Shavuos, with the Tur's remez minu v'itzru: count, and then Atzeres. Every one of Klal Yisrael is needed at Matan Torah, each with an own avodah under an own degel. From the Gemara in Shabbos on the danger of bloodletting Erev Shavuos, and the Shulchan Aruch's custom to avoid it every Erev Yom Tov, we learn that Kabbalas HaTorah happens afresh every year.

Key points

• The Tur's remez minu v'itzru means count Klal Yisrael, then come to Atzeres.
• In the Kedushas Levi, each of the 600,000 in Klal Yisrael is a letter of the Torah.
• We learn that Kabbalas HaTorah happens again each year, and every one of us is needed afresh.

In this shiur

1. 0:00The kelalos read before Shavuos
2. 1:47The Mechaber's order and the Tur's remez
3. 3:16Counting Klal Yisrael in Bamidbar
4. 5:30Kedushas Levi on the word Yisrael
5. 6:48Shevet Levi counted al pi Hashem
6. 8:14Gemara on bloodletting Erev Shavuos
7. 9:43Shulchan Aruch on bloodletting Erev Yom Tov
8. 10:25Kabbalas HaTorah every year

Topics

• Shavuos
• Matan Torah
• Parshas Bamidbar
• Kabbalas HaTorah