The Torah Is For Bodies
Tech Tribe Dispatch #302
💡 Think:
The Holiday of Shavuot begins after Shabbat tomorrow night. While it is a mitzvah to eat a festive meal on every holiday (outside of Yom Kippur, when we eat the meal before the holiday) on Shavuot it’s an obligation to eat one.
Seemingly, the holiday commemorating the Torah’s giving should be focused on spiritual matters - not the corporal pleasure of a physical meal.
The reason for this unique obligation is connected to the very nature of the Torah itself. The giving of the Torah empowered us to make G-dliness manifest in the very base physicality of the world. We are able to take physical leather and craft a Torah scroll, imbuing it with transcendent sanctity, give charity and elevate the money we earn through our daily toil, and eat a festive meal and make it a Divine experience.
On Shavuot, when the Torah is given, we must eat a meal, so that our physical flesh can take part in the joy and elevation of the day.
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