Torah is not a guidebook, but the screenplay to Creation
On our fifth date, I posed the question.
Shavuos was a week away and yeshivah bochurim across the world were stockpiling seforim, anticipating an epic night of learning. I, on the other hand, was feeling very conflicted, and figured I’d tap the hashkafic wellsprings of my unwitting date.
“What does Shavuos have to do with me?” I asked him. “I don’t have a chiyuv of limud haTorah, how do I relate to a Yom Tov that celebrates Torah learning?”
Puzzled, he said, “You’re making a mistake. Shavuos is not a celebration of limud haTorah, it’s a day of kabbalas haTorah, when we accept upon ourselves the Torah, and this applies equally to men and women.”
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