On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Cantor Wolberg <<a href="mailto:cantorwolberg@cox.net">cantorwolberg@cox.net</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 16px;">We read Megillas Rus on Shavuos because it was written to document the yichus of Dovid Hamelech and Dovid Hamelech was born and niftar on Shavuos.<br>
</span></font><i><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Shulchan Aruch w/Mishnah Brurah 490:9, see also Shaarei Tshuvah 494:3</span></font></i><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br><br></span></font></span><div>
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 16px;">The Ollelos Ephraim says that one who dedicates a new Sefer Torah to a shul on Shavuos is considered as if he "brought a Korbon Mincha to Hashem in its right time".<br>
</span></font><i><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Shaarei Tshuvah 494:3</span></font></i></span></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br>Here is a another one - a cute one<br><br>Rus = 606.<br>A geir accepts 606 additional mitzovs over and aobve the original 7 of b'nai No'ach.<br>
Rus was a giyores. And so were ALL the Children of Israel at Mt. Sinai accepting 606 additional Mitzvos.<br><br>FWIW, I have a novel interpretaion of 613 mitzvos were all given at Sinai. Not that all 613 were given at one time [Pesach Sheini and B'nos Zlaphchad would be difficult to explain away]<br>
Rather HKBH told Moshe at Sinai:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">"When I get done with you ther WIll BE 613 Mitzvos in all!" <br>
</blockquote><div><br></div>THAT was the "613" given on day one at Sinai.<br>This also explains the Behag who includes derabbanan's in HIS 613. That is because only the TALLY of 613 were given at Sinai but NOT literally all 613 separate commandments! OR if you will the EXPECTATION of 613 was given but not the actual list.<br>
<br>But as Geirim at Sinai we were meqabeil ALL 613 on Day one even though they might not be elucidated for a LONG TIME COMING! This parallels a REAL LIFE Geir who accepts 613 long before he/she has mastered sefer hamitzvos or the Halchos Gedolos!<br>
<br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br>RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com<br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>