Rabbi Daniel Bouskila: The Mystical Zionist Tikkun Leil Shavuot

Rabbi Bouskila writes of Rev Karo and Rav Alkabetz, who heard the voice of the Shekhina on Erev Shavuot, and wrote the Maggid Mesharim. The Maggid Mesharim covered the Creation of the World, the Revelation on Mt. Sinai, and the account of Ezra Nehemia’s return to Jerusalem to rebuild the Temple: “from exile to redemption”.

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, z/l: Bemidbar The Ever Repeated Story

The Torah reads like a narrative of events as they occurred, interspersed with commandments: this is what happened, these are the rules. But it is really about truths that emerge through time. Ancient Israel found truth in history, events, and what God told us to learn from them, unlike the ancient Greeks, who sought truth by contemplating nature and reason.