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Shavuot Night: Learning Through Fatigue

When The Second Day Feels Flat

Love As The Reason We Stay Up

Cheesecake, Pride, And Real Celebration

An Airport Question About Purpose

The Takeaway: Dance Because You’re Chosen

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Ah, the holiday of a shivuas is upon us. Let me know if the following reenactment is the slightest bit relatable for you. You get the kids the new Yuntiv clothing, you buy yourself a new tie, you buy your wife a Yuntiv present, you're ready to go, you get the house all ready with the flowers, it's like Matantoira. You make sure you have your Gemaras there and you set up your schedule for what you're gonna do. Shivuas night. Everything's ready to go. You get your Isaac's Ram for the night or the Yatir Forest or whatever it is. You are ready. You're a muchan for this holy holiday of Shivuas. You make your Aruf Taf Shillin, don't forget that. You go to Daven. You make it ram on Shahimikid Shonamitwaisov. Beautiful. You come home from Daven. You maybe eat a bit too much. You can but you still you push through, you go to learn. It's two in the morning, still, you keep going. You see the guy in the corner, though, you know, obsessive energy drink guys, four Red Bulls in. This guy's outside with the brownies, and they're talking and learning. You're inside, you're learning more. You're a little bit shwach, a little sleepy. Maybe you'll do something more kumish, maybe this. This guy's fat him doing tikan chatzois, everything. Tikan Lel Shabuas. But sometimes, in the hustle bustle, sometimes the second day can become hard. Sometimes we can miss nuances of the holiday. Sometimes without the proper mindset, the day that is so potently powerful to elevate us to new heights can be overlooked. And here's one approach. Give me 60 seconds. I first saw this from a Gersh and Ribner. I subsequently saw it from the Yasai Vishrar Ashahavay, then ultimately saw it in the Gemara from the Amayurb. Yoise start the 60 seconds now. Shavuis is a day of being ecstatic and overjoyed that God chose us to learn his tairah, to become Kidaishimtiyu, to walk in the ways of God. It's an ultimate day of exuberant celebration. And therefore, our avoid is that this is a loving relationship that we're so in love with Hashem that we stay up the whole entire night. Does it even make sense? Sometimes it ends up losing out on the tira the next day. Because if we went through the whole night, why can't I just learn the during the day? Then why is it because sometimes when I have a Mikhail Kellas' Ashura, when you're in love, you do stupid things. You just stay up the whole night, you wanna do it. You go ahead and you celebrate. As the Gemara says, on all holidays, it's unclear exactly if you must have Gashmius, or maybe you could just stand your time in the synagogues learning and David. But on Shavuis, everyone agrees that you need to have cheesecake, you need to have your own party, you need to celebrate because God chose me. You should be proud. And if God forbid, no, not God forbid, if your celebrity that you know in the news should come to you and say, You want my life for a second, you want to be on the front page of the news, you want the billion dollars of whatever it is that that celebrity has that they're coming to offer you, you want to switch for an hour. You should say, I don't want it. My life is better because I was chosen to be a child of God. I was chosen to have an ultimate be bringing light onto the nations to walk in Hashem's ways, and that makes me feel like I've got it all. It makes you dance outside like a mashugana. Because it's Geshmakza Zineyah that's the Aviter from Shruis. It's probably over 60 seconds. But I have to tell you, I was walking in the airport. So something happens if you live out of town, you get to have stories like this, and somebody asked me when they saw my tittis and they saw my yarmulk. I promise you, he told me, what's it like to wake up in the morning and have something to live for? He said, I try this, the movie, the this, the book, this, it's enjoyable, but ultimately, what's it like to have something that you live for and you're something you're willing to die for? And it was woke me up. It's Gishmach's Anayid Shivuis, is as Ravyoy Sav said, if Elive, Hayoi Makama, Iko, Yoise Bishuka, if not for today, then how many Joe Shmoes are in the marketplace? But Shavuus made him a Yoise. Shavuis is a day to celebrate that you have been chosen for this exalted, unique, special, unbelievable, enjoyable mission by Hakadash Baraku and rejoice and sing and dance because it's Gishmaxinayid and how lucky we are that Hakadh Baruch chose us.