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Ep. 269 · Shavuos · 17 min · 2023-05-24

You're Not an Angel

Pouring rain, a carriage at the door, and the Av Beis Din, Rav Avraham, brother of the Vilna Gaon, loading his own seforim to leave town for good right after Simchas Torah.Beside that story sits a Shavuos question. Even the opinion in the Gemara in Pesachim that every Yom Tov belongs entirely to Hashem agrees Shavuos needs a share for eating and enjoying. Why the day of the Torah, of all days? And when the malachim fought Moshe for the Torah, what were they fighting over, if both could learn it? It changes how you sit down to the Yom Tov meal, and why you stay up that night.