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Shavuot is approaching. The wheat fields have already been harvested, the straw bales have been gathered, and we are preparing once again to wear white, bring greenery, and celebrate one of the fundamental holidays of Jewish identity. A holiday that connects earth and spirit, the harvest and morality, the Exodus and the giving of the Torah.
We counted the days. Seven weeks of anticipation. We left Egypt, and now we stand once again at the foot of the mountain. But this year, more than ever, one difficult question must be asked: What Torah will we receive this year?
For the Torah is not just an ancient text, and it is not in heaven. It is here in our lives, in our values, in the way we speak, educate, judge, love, and hate. The Torah is the book of books. A teaching for life. But our sages have already taught: it can be an “elixir of life,” but also an “elixir of death.”
It is not the Torah that determines which it will be, but we. So the real question of Shavuot is not whether we receive the Torah, but which........