Sunday, June 1, 2025

Fwd: A Story for Shavuos


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From: Rabbi Moshe Schwed <dafinfo@alldaf.org>
Date: Sun, Jun 1, 2025, 7:01 AM
Subject: A Story for Shavuos
To: <herschelchroman@gmail.com>


There's a powerful story about Rav Meir Simcha of Dvinsk, the Ohr Sameach.

 

He was once learning with a chavrusa, and they got stuck on a Tosfos. No matter how many times they reviewed it, they couldn't make sense of the words. Finally, Rav Meir Simcha said:

 


}  "We need to stop and daven. Let's ask Hashem to help us understand."

 

He stood and poured out his heart in tefillah:

 

}   "Ribono Shel Olam, please have mercy on me… and help me be zocheh to ahavas haTorah."

 

His chavrusa was puzzled:

 

}   "Now's the time to ask for ahavas haTorah? Shouldn't we be davening for binah — to understand the Tosfos?"

 

Rav Meir Simcha replied with a mashal:

 

A child is crying in the street. People try to calm him, but nothing works. Then the child's mother arrives. She whispers a few words — and the child stops crying. Why? Because she's the mother. Her love gives her the sensitivity to understand what the child needs, even without explanations.

 

}   "If we want to truly understand Torah," Rav Meir Simcha said, "we need to love it. Ahavas haTorah isn't a luxury — it's a condition 

for clarity."

 

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This Shavuos, when we say: 

 והאר עינינו בתורתך ודבק לבנו במצותיך —

let's have in mind not just the understanding,
but the love that makes Torah part of who we are.

 

We feel incredibly fortunate to be able to provide a platform like All Torah — filled with top-quality, curated Torah content — and even more so to have such thoughtful, engaged users learning with us every day.

 

Wishing you a meaningful and uplifting Kabbalas HaTorah.

 

Warmly,
Moshe Schwed
All Torah
 

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