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Any Corruption is Intolerable

It is one of the cardinal principles of Torah and a crucial component of the Torah hashkofoh that neither a person nor life is compartmentalized. Everything, great and small, must be done properly, according to the moral and legal prescriptions of Torah. "The law of a penny is the same as the law of a hundred." Even the things that we crush underfoot, we are taught, may truly stand at the heights of the world.

The Proper Preparation for Shavuos
by HaRav Michel Yehudah Lefkowitz

This article was prepared based on a shmuess delivered on erev Shavuos 5759 in the Beis Medrash Elyon and kollel Toras Chesed.

The Judgments of Shavuos
by L. Jungerman

"And you shall count for you from the morrow of the festival... seven weeks shall they be" (Vayikro 23:15).

The Zohar writes: "Come and see: any person who does not count this enumeration of seven complete weeks in order to merit this purity, is not considered pure and cannot be included in the category of the pure, and he is not worthy of sharing any part in the Torah!"

Sefiras HaOmer and Shavuos -- Counting to Torah
by Rabbi Yosef Levinson

The period of Sefiras HaOmer is known as the time of preparation for kabolas haTorah. It is also the period of mourning for R' Akiva's talmidim. There is an aspect of sefiroh that can help us look at this yearly occurrence in a new light and also give us an appreciation of why it was during sefiroh that R' Akiva's students perished.

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