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Joy of Yom Tov


 
Every holiday has a mitzvah to rejoice, delight the day with food and drink. So should not fast during holidays, except fasting dream. If someone had a not good dream and it is bothering him, he is permitted to fast to undo the dream, even during the holiday. Fast relaxing makes him happy and pleasure for him. Shavuot is different from the rest of the holidays, it is forbidden to fast even dream of fasting.

Passover is determined to remember physical grace - going from slavery in Egypt to freedom, Sukkot is also determined to remember physical grace – G-od put us in clouds.

These holidays are remembered physical grace may be fast a fasting of dream. And at Pentecost it is memory of spiritual grace - giving of the Torah, it is forbidden to fast fasting of a dream. Why?

Torah was given to us, souls in bodies. Observance is not only beneficial for the soul, also to the body. Mitzvah tenderness the body, and Inserts in the body a holy. The reason is allowed to fast during the holidays only a dream fasting is: we engaged in a spiritual dream, soul sleeping inside the body. If the body of a Jew cannot enjoy eating at holiday, it's because the soul is not enough radiation to the body, the soul in a state of sleep. This is not the true reality of the Jew, but like a dream. What was not dreaming, the body was also enjoying the food of the holiday.

Shavuot is unique in that revelation of the Torah G-od injected divinity every level of creation. The voice of the giving of the Torah came from all sides caught in all creation. When the divine light penetrating all levels, indeed, to lesser places, there is no longer a state of sleep and dreams. Even the lowest levels of the worldly body feel the joy of the holiday and enjoying it. So only at Shavuot should not fasting even fasting of dream.


 
 



     
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