Nachdaily: 5 Minute Perek Of Tanach Covering The Entire Navi. Sefer Yehoshua, Shoftim, Shmuel, Melachim, Yeshaya, Yirmiya, Ye

Shavuos Special: Welcome to NachDaily, Im Rabbi Shaya Sussman. Today I wanted to discuss the upcoming holiday of Shavuos, the day the Torah was given. Rebbe Nachman gives us, in Sichos Haran 91, an amazing lesson on Jewish unity and our relationship with the Torah. He begins by explaining that if we want to learn b’hasmada, with diligence, we need to be very careful not to speak badly about any Jew. There are six hundred thousand letters in the Torah which correspond to the six hundred thousand neshmos Yisrael, Jewish souls. Every Jew is represented by a letter in the Torah. When you speak badly about another Jew, therefore, it’s as if you’re detracting from the letters of the Torah, finding blemishes in it. We also know that Har Sinai was considered like our wedding day. All of Am Yisrael was k’ish echad beleiv echad, one nation with one heart, completely unified. We saw every member of the Jewish people as true brothers. Torah tsiva lanu Moshe, morasha kehilas Yaakov - Moshe commanded us the Tor