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Daily Chizuk #0430
Weekly Parasha
Day of Our Marriage: The Adornment of Shavuot
The Zohar HaKadosh calls Shavuot the day of our marriage to Hashem. And on Leil Shavuot, if a person stays up all night long learning Torah, it’s like the bride adorning herself in preparation for the wedding. The Zohar continues, whoever performs this Tikkun, by learning with joy, will be written down in Hashem’s special sefer hazikaron and Hashem will bless them with 70 berachot and bestow crowns upon them that come from the highest places in Shamayim.
Whoever involves themselves with the study of Torah at night merits to have the Shechina opposite him.” The Meshech Chochma in parashat Vayikra writes, nighttime here refers to learning when nobody is watching. Learning, not for the sake of honor or to make a name for oneself, pure Torah learning, just for the sake of Hashem. Someone who learns for ulterior motives is also good because מתוך שלא לשמה בא לשמה(he will eventually come to learn for the sake of heaven), but he is compared to someone who is planting seeds with hope that, in the future, he’ll be able to harvest with joy, like the pasuk says "הזורעים בדמעה ברינה יקצורו" – those who seed will eventually be able to rejoice at the time of harvest. But someone who learns lishma doesn’t have to wait to rejoice. Regarding him, the pasuk says, "קומי רוני בלילה" – get up now and dance in the nighttime, because you are learning בלילה – you have reached the goal now, learning when no one is watching. Learning when nobody will know if we stayed up or not, is called learning lishma – it’s just between us and Hashem.
Let us utilize this great opportunity and prepare for the wedding by adorning ourselves with the Torah and thereby merit all the blessings that come along with it.
Whoever involves themselves with the study of Torah at night merits to have the Shechina opposite him.” The Meshech Chochma in parashat Vayikra writes, nighttime here refers to learning when nobody is watching. Learning, not for the sake of honor or to make a name for oneself, pure Torah learning, just for the sake of Hashem. Someone who learns for ulterior motives is also good because מתוך שלא לשמה בא לשמה(he will eventually come to learn for the sake of heaven), but he is compared to someone who is planting seeds with hope that, in the future, he’ll be able to harvest with joy, like the pasuk says "הזורעים בדמעה ברינה יקצורו" – those who seed will eventually be able to rejoice at the time of harvest. But someone who learns lishma doesn’t have to wait to rejoice. Regarding him, the pasuk says, "קומי רוני בלילה" – get up now and dance in the nighttime, because you are learning בלילה – you have reached the goal now, learning when no one is watching. Learning when nobody will know if we stayed up or not, is called learning lishma – it’s just between us and Hashem.
Let us utilize this great opportunity and prepare for the wedding by adorning ourselves with the Torah and thereby merit all the blessings that come along with it.
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