Shavuos is a date you don't want to forget.
It is our anniversary.
It is the day that the Jewish people married the Torah, our bride. The day we unequivocally accepted it for exactly as it is. The precise words we said "we will do and we will listen", we are ready to bind ourselves into a relationship of unconditional love. Whatever it says in it we welcome with open hearts.
The guarantors of this special union, neither the angels nor our saintly forefathers but our holy children. It is our children that carry the Torah from generation to generation and make sure that we treat it with the respect and dignity befitting this beautiful bride.
It is they, with their innocent joy and pure hearts that hold the Torah high reminding their parents how fortunate we are to be part of a people celebrating this anniversary for the three thousand, two hundred, eighty third time!
G-d was wise to accept them as our guarantors, the children have indeed guarded the Torah until this very day and will continue to do so until the day Moshiach arrives.
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