Tikkun Leil Shavuot - Promise of The Arizal

Every year you have an opportunity to fix yourself and become a vessel for the Torah. The Arizal says that if a person studies all night without a break, without the bas without smoking every five minutes, he's up all night smoking cigarettes with his friends. Better off go home, sleep on the couch, sleep, sleep at home. What do you eat? If he studies Torah all night, the Ariza promises, he doesn't make too many promise. Promises in his name, nothing bad will happen to you that year. That's if you study Torah all year, all all night. Not if you're hanging out with your friends. You study Torah all night, something special. Why? Because that's the that's the time to do it. That's the time to do it. Why? You're fixing the tikun. Why do we not sleep? Why do we not sleep on the night of and study? Why? Because that was the mistake made. Hashem said, "I'm going to give you to what we do." We fell asleep. Hashem get upset. He says, "Listen, this we're about to get married. You fall asleep on me. That's why we stay up. The angels are here. Hashem is here. The is here. Everything's here. Get ready. Shabbat says that two angels came to each person and crowned him. Spiritual crowns. Each year were given the same opportunity. Each person needs to take advantage of it. It behooves a person not to take maximum advantage of it. This is the time where you could literally ask for the most important thing in the world. It's not money. It's not a wife. It's not children. It's imitate. It's Yeah. Yeah. Ask for anything. What anything? Ask for Torah. Ask for Torah. Ask for Torah. That's where you can get all the Torah you want. You really want. But show Hashem you want it. Show Hashem you want it. So now if you look at it says in chapter 19 verse Moshe brought the people forth from the camp towards God and they stood under the mountain. How do you stand under a mountain? Maybe next to the mountain, maybe on top of the mountain. How do you stand under a mountain? You can stand in a cave, under a cave, but under how do you stand under a mountain? So the Shabbat explains the amount of miracles that we saw in defied what we believe is nature. Hashem wanted to make sure that Amish realized this is a marriage. So what did he do? He turned Mount Sai into Kupa. Mount Sai that was the humblest of all mountains. the other mountains. Everything in creation has an angel responsible for it. So the angel of the tallest mountain said, "Oh yeah, of course Hashem is going to give the Torah on me. I'm the tallest mountain." The prettiest mountain said, "No, no, no. I'm the nicest mountain of all. Look at me. It's beautiful. There's flowers. There's this. There's that. I'm the nicest. Hashem is going to give it to me." Hashem says, "Not you and not you. What I'm gonna give it to Mount Si." Why mount Sai? Mount Kiv. Why? He's the humblest. He's not the tallest. He's not. He's the humblest. He's the humblest man. He didn't even volunteer. He didn't even want it. Like, who am I? That's the mount I'm going to give it to. Why? Because the Torah is humble. Is needs to be humble. The mount can only be given on Hams of being humble. So now this mount Sai, it's a mountain. You see a mountain is a mountain. Some are bigger, some are smaller, some are wider. But the point is you see that you can imagine the visual of what a mountain looks like. But the Shabbat says, "Hashem wanted to make sure knows this is a marriage. It's not some uh I'm not just giving you a keys to your new car." Like parents give a 17-year-old brand new keys for some strange reason. They give him a brand new car. Instead of giving him uh you know some car that just came out of the junkyard, they give him brand new car to go destroy. He doesn't even know how to drive yet. Anyway, Hashem says, "No, no, no. I'm giving you the best right now." Why? I love you, but I need you to make I need you to make sure you know what we're doing here. I need you to make I need to make sure you know what's on the line. So, he turned the mountain into a what? He says you're going to stand under the mountain. What's under the mountain? But the mountain all of a sudden went from this to this and is under the mountain. Is standing under the mountain? Why is standing under the mountain? Hashem says, "This is our wedding day. If you receive my offer to accept the Torah here, we're married. We're never going to be separated. This is our If not, if you say no, this will be your burial ground. the top of the mountain that's on top of you will collapse on top of you and kill all of you at once. So the sages in says wait what kind of wedding is this? This is a threat. It's not a wedding. Usually both parties agree. And if the one person forces the other, it's not really a marriage. You forced them. They didn't really agree. So the sages explain that yes, this was a marriage and yes, they had the option to say no. And Hashem told them what would happen if they say no. They had the option to say no. He wasn't forcing them. He just told them that if you say no, there's a consequence. You have the option to keep Shabbat or not keep Shabbat. No one's putting a gun to your head and uh shooting it before you violated it. You have the option. You keep Shabbat. You don't have to keep Shabbat. You could be married to a Jew. You could be married to a non-Jew. You could eat kosher or you keep non-coosher. What the Torah is telling you is that you can do whatever you want. There are consequences though. Half the Torah, if not more, tells you that if you can do whatever you want, but you need to know there are consequences for what you do. This is one of the 13 principles of faith where Hashem specifically tells us, I pay reward to the righteous and I punish the wicked. A person that does not believe in this is removed from minan. He cannot be counted in minan. He cannot be counted as a witness in Jewish ceremonies. He's considered outside of Isel. Why? This is the foundation of Torah. If you think that Hashem only gives reward and no punishment, you believe in a different religion. So the say, "Okay, fine. I we understand that there is a uh punishment for not listening to Torah, but over here we're receiving the Torah. We don't really know all of it yet, but we're already accepting the whole thing." Or is death. Why would we pick death? Like it's an obvious choice. we're going to make. So responds, "Would you think that we have an irresponsible God that's going to leave the entire creation to a bunch of people that can change their mind here and there?" Because Hashem made a promise that when he created the world, he created the world for Torah. 974 generations before he created the world, he wrote the Torah with black fire on top of white fire. And when he put all of the pieces together to create the world on the sixth day, he made a deal with the angel responsible for earth. He told them, "Listen, there's going to come a time that I'm going to give this Torah to a nation. If they accept it, then Friday turns into Shabbat. Friday goes into Shabbat, beginning of Shabbat. We could celebrate Shabbat together and rest together. If they say no, they're not going to see Shabbat because I'm bringing back the entire world to how it was before we got here. Nothing. And this is the reason the says that when you say in [Music] You're saying a says the sixth day is different than all the other days because every time Hashem completed creating at the end of every day he said he saw it was evening it was morning first day it was evening it was morning second day there was no Monday Tuesday Wednesday in Hebrew that's all names of uh false gods, different idols. By the way, it all comes from different idolatry. All the names of the the days in English come from different forms of idolatry. Every one of them is a name of a different idol. In Hebrew, there's no Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. In Hebrew, it's rishon means first day. Also, the beginning of the week in in according to the Torah is which is Sunday. Sunday, you can see it's the the the sun god. That's why it's called Sunday because they these go used to believe in the sun being God. Soon is Sunday Monday it's the third day Tuesday fourth day Wednesday fifth day shishi sixth day Friday Shabbat seventh day they call it Saturday. So each time Hashem completed creation at the end of the at the day he says it was evening, it was morning, end of first day, end of second day, end of third day, end of fourth day, end of fifth day. But then when it gets to the puk of Friday, it says it was evening, it was morning, yum hashishi, end of the sixth day. meaning there's an extra word the in Hebrew in English it's an extra letter hey instead of instead of saying it says yashi it's an extra letter which in English would be equivalent to the extra word 'the' th so asks what's this the what's this extra letter why don't you just say end of sixth day says because this hey this extra letter is the signature it says signature of the deal he made with the Malik. What deal? The deal that if they receive the Torah when I give it to them in 2,448 years from then they receive the Torah then we get the Shabbat. If not I bring back the world back to Tvo. What does he represent? Also he represents the number five. What's the Torah? Five books of Moses. We are meant to be a light unto the nations, not to follow their misguided practices. Remember, every Jew has to remember that he's a Jew and she's a Jew. We don't celebrate non-Jewish holidays, even if they seem harmless. It's a zil disrespect to the Torah and could lead to chal Hashem, desecration of God's name. stick to our holy Torah and our own holidays. That's the path of a true Jew.