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Why Us? What Does it Mean to Receive the Torah

On Shavuot, we celebrate the giving of the Torah at Sinai. But why were the Jews the ones to receive it?
Dr. Channa Pinchasi is a Research Fellow in the Kogod Research Center for Contemporary Jewish Thought at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. She is the Director of the Maskilot program and guides research teams at the Center for Judaism and the State Policy. Channa was the Deputy Director of Be’eri and Director of the Be’eri School for Teacher Education at the Institute for 7 years. She received her PhD in gender studies from Bar-Ilan

On Shavuot, we celebrate the giving of the Torah at Sinai. But why were the Jews the ones to receive it? The sages offered two opposing answers. Channa Pinchasi explores these two viewpoints and talks about what it means to be worthy of receiving the Torah.

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