Before Shevu’ot it was a bad year. There was no income and there were many soldiers who were persecuting the Jews. R. Nahum Chernobyler said: “It is no wonder that at the giving of the Torah there was such a revelation and the Jews cried ‘we will do and we will obey’ [Exodus 24:7]. There were such miracles at the Red Sea – ‘A maid-servant beheld [at the sea what was not beheld by Ezekiel and the other prophets]’ [Mekhilta de-rabbi Yishmael 15:2:2] and then later at Mount Sinai [God] ‘overturned the mountain above them [like a tub]’ [B.T. Shabbat 88a]. With such miracles, it is no wonder that there was such a revelation and the receiving of the Torah with love. Master of the World!,” he called out, “Show us today such a revelation and such miracles and you shall see how your Jews will receive the Torah with love.”
I.F.
Boyaner Rebbe
