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This week's parshas, Parshas

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Yisro, we have the

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receiving of the Torah.

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And in the receiving

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of the Torah there's

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a very interesting posuk

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that says vayar ha’am

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vayanu’u. And the nation

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saw and they shook.

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And the Baal HaTurim

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comments on this verse.

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He says that they

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shook and therefore, when

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people daven and when

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people learn, they shuckel

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like this. They shuckel

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because the Torah was

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given with such an

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awe that people shook.

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So too, we shake

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when we learn, when

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we learn Torah. Rabbi

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Wachshof from the Mir

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says over that he

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heard one time another

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explanation from an Adam

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Gadol, from a great

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man, that we know

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that the heart, the

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heart goes up and

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down. So too, the

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shuckelin, the back and

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forth shuckelin represents infusing

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life into the body,

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into our spirituality. Just

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like the heart infuses

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life into the physical

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body, our spirituality is

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also alive. It's a

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real thing. And the

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way we infuse it

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is when we shuckel

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in our davening when

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we pray and in

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our learning. That shuckelin,

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whether it means physical

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shuckelin or figurative shuckelin,

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it's infusing life. When

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a person davens, when

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a person prays or

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they learn with shuckelin,

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they're showing that it's

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alive. It's something which

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is alive. It's not

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dead. It's not by

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rote. Such life one

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can infuse during the

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more spiritual parts of

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their day. During their

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learning and during their

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davening infuses the whole

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person with life, with

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spiritual life. And that

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can take a person

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even when they go

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out to the physical

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world. That idea that

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a few times a

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day we stop and

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we shuckel, literally or

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figuratively we shuckel infusing

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life through the means

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of prayer or through

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the means of study

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of learning Torah infuses

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our entire essence with

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life and that's what's

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going to carry us

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through the day. One

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of the psukim that's

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mentioned is that the

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Jews all answered together

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vaya'anu kol ha'am yachdav

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and they said vayomer

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kol asher diber Hashem

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na'aseh, we will do.

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Rabbi Itzik Kaplan points

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out from Rav Wolbe

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a beautiful idea. The

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Ramban and the Midrash

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point out that when

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the Jews accepted the

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Torah, it wasn't a

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majority rules, they went

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after the majority. Everyone

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looked around at their

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friend, well everyone else

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is saying we will

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do, so we'll say

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the same thing. No.

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Each individual, each individual

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on their own accepted

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the Torah. That's why

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the Ramban points out

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it says Anochi Hashem

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Elokecha. Anochi, the whole

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Anochi is in the

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singular, Anochi Hashem Elokecha,

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I'm your God. It's

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all in the singular.

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Every Jew accepted upon

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themselves individually the Torah.

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Explains Rav Wolbe that

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it's so important even

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though we have so

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many Jews that are

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doing so many things

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and sometimes we find

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ourselves in a mix

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of Jews and they're

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doing something, so we're

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going to do it

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too. They're learning, we're

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learning. They're praying and

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we're praying. But how

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important and how incumbent

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it is upon us

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to realize that we

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have to consistently accept

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upon ourselves anew our

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acceptance of mitzvos, our

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acceptance of the Torah.

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We have to do

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it individually, not just

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go along with what

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those around us are

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doing, but do it

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individually. The idea of

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shuckelin back and forth,

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infusing life into us,

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helps a person connect

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in an individual way

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to Hashem. When a

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person decides in a

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prayer to, in their

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own personal way, to

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ask Hashem for something

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and to infuse life,

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he's asking to help

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him in the day

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and he wants to

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infuse his day with

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spirituality, then when a

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person goes throughout his

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life, throughout his day,

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throughout his month, he

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will be able to

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individually accept the Torah,

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not just do it

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by rote or not

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just do it because

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everyone else is doing

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it. But the infusion

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of life can very

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much help and assist

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a person to do

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what we did so

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many years ago that

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each individual accepted upon

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themselves the Torah. Have

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a wonderful Shabbas.