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Presented by Rabbi Shmuel Butman, Executive Director of the Central Lubavitch Youth Organization (Tzach Hamerkazis) and a veteran columnist and radio broadcaster.
On this week’s program:
How can you compare the days “of fulfillment” of Shavuos to the days “of fulfillment” of Pesach and Sukkos? In Pesach and Succos they are part of the Festival, on Shavuos they are simple week days?
The advantage of our learning Torah and fulfilling Mitzvos over the generations before the giving of the Torah and the unique explanation of the Alter Rebbe on “And thou should make the Festival of Shavuos.”
Weekly story: What did the Rebbe remark to a rabbi in Yechidus about mekusharim in the wrong areas?
“Dovid meis ba-atzeres” Dovid passed away on Shovuos, says the Yerushalmi (Beitzo, 2,4). So we must say that it was Shovuos and Shabbos. Keep up the good work.
Didn’t Dovid Hamelech pass away on Shabbos (as we learn in the Gemara in Shabbos 30a/b)
I am not sure exactly what hgappened when Dovid haMelech died and whether or not it was actually Yom Tov , but it easily could have been because in the times of Dovid HaMelech they were mekadesh the chodesh al pi riyo and therefore shavuois could have been either the 5th 6th or 7th of Sivan …
BH. Rabbi Butman said that Dovid Hamelech passed away on Shvuos, Quastion. but when Dovid Hamelech passed away, Shvuos was only one day, and the day after was not Shvuos?