Q. Kevod Moreinu Horav Shlit’a. Tomorrow Wednesday the 28 of May (2025) is going to be Rosh Chodesh Sivan.
I remember hearing in a shiur that it is a most important day and Hakadosh Baruch Hu listens to all of our prayers and that is something I really truly most need. What exactly is the source of the above?
A. At the receiving of the Torah about to be celebrated, it is written, “And the People of Israel encamped there, opposite the Mountain.”
Our Sages teach us about “that very day” refers to Rosh Chodesh Sivan. Yet the term written in the Torah for “encamped” is “Vayichan” and it is singular, and not as expected plural.
This is to instruct us that the acceptance of the Torah by the Jewish Nation, was to be as one unique single minded people together with Hashem. They were all united with a single heart. That was truly essential and indispensable because the receiving of the Torah was exactly like a marriage contract between Hashem and His nation and, as such, there was no room and place for any hesitation or disloyalty between all the parties.
In Divrei HaYamim (Chronicles II- 15:9, 12), we find, regarding King Asa of Yehudah, written: “And he gathered all of Yehudah and Binyamin, and from those who lived with them, from Ephrayim and Menasheh and from Shimon, for they collected unto him in multitudes, because they saw that Hashem was with him. And they were gathered to Yerushalayim in the third month, of the fifteenth year of King Asa. And they sacrificed to Hashem on that day.”
Our Sages teach us that this entry into a Covenant with Hashem by the Jewish Nation, that occurred approximately six hundred years after the Covenant at Sinai, was indeed on Rosh Chodesh Sivan and it united all of us with Hashem, and He is then all for us. and listens to our prayers.
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